Hillshade map of Iran

• redd.it/el2z2e

“It’s a cat … a Persian cat, if you will”–pi_over_3

Percentage of Gilak speakers in provinces of Iran

• redd.it/el2xfw

“What is Gilak? Is it Turkic or IE? … nope its an iranic language”

Ethnicities and Religions in Iran

• redd.it/dgf2e2

“Why is that chunk of coast uninhabited?”–untipoquenojuega

“The Gedrosian Desert as the Greeks called it, modern Makran. There’s some people there, almost entirely on the coast, because it’s some damn rough country with very little water”–QuickSpore

– redd.it/bmk736

“Bahrain is listed as having been lost as a result of a poll from 1971, but the wiki on Bahrain’s history says the island was under British control for some time before that, and then gained independence in 1971”–KevinMango

• redd.it/bk8raa

• redd.it/b7zhul

“This map is actually surprising to me. Looking at Iran on a satellite map, you would think the vast majority of it was useless desert.”–lost-muh-password