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Iran
Capital: Tehran
- Iran has 30 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the tenth-highest total of any country in the world.
- Yazd is nicknamed the City of Windcatchers and has one of the largest qanat networks in the world.
- Tea is widely drunk in Iran and is typically the first thing offered to a guest, often with a sugar cube.
- Persian, known natively as Farsi, is an Indo-European language that is written with the Arabic alphabet.
- Persepolis was built in the 6th century BC as the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, starting with Darius I.