Iranian Plateau

noun

1. a plateau in SW Asia, mostly in Iran, extending from the Tigris to the Indus rivers. 1,000,000 sq. mi. (2,590,000 sq. km).

Example Sentences

An east–west transect, stretching from the Iranian Plateau to China’s Loess Plateau, and comprising 12 stations 200–500 kilometres apart, will examine the impacts of the westerlies.

From Nature

Tour operators working in Iran lauded the inclusion of Yazd, a remote city in the central Iranian plateau that developed an underground water system and maintains its traditional Persian architecture and Zoroastrian temples.

From New York Times

Ashur is a city in present-day Iraq, north of the Tigris River near the Iranian Plateau.

From Washington Post

The samosa's origins actually lie thousands of miles away in the ancient empires that rose up in the Iranian plateau at the dawn of civilization itself.

From BBC

Persian Empire had within it, and the Iranian Plateau continues to keep, nourish and flourish the Iranian Cuisine, one which has been enriched by Arab, Armenian, Central Asian, Turkish, and even other cuisines of the neighboring regions.

From New York Times