'Map to illustrate the Military Report on Tehran and adjacent provinces in N. W. Persia'
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/23, f 302
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The record is made up of 1 map. It was created in Feb 1922. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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The map is of Tehran and the surrounding parts of north west Persia on the south coast of the Caspian Sea. It shows human settlements, administrative zones, topographical features, agricultural products, and roads. Beneath the main map are two smaller maps, one showing the areas surveyed by the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, the other ethnographical divisions.
The map includes a printing statement that reads 'Simla Drawing Office. No. 3090, Feb. 1922. Reg. No. 2287 E 22-400'. The map was heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Calcutta.
- Extent and format
- 1 map
- Area map covers
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- Scale
- 1:760320
- Scale designator
- Horizontal
- Orientation
- North
- Degree coordinates
- Top-left: 38° 0' 0" N, 47° 0' 0" E
Top-right: 38° 0' 0" N, 54° 0' 0" E
Bottom-left: 35° 0' 0" N, 47° 0' 0" E
Bottom-right: 35° 0' 0" N, 54° 0' 0" E - It is part of
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- Physical characteristics
Materials: Printed in colour on paper
Dimensions: 457 x 790mm, on sheet 630 x 905mm
- Written in
- English in Latin script
- Type
- Map
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- British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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- Archive reference
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/23, f 302
- Date(s)
- Feb 1922 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Simla Drawing Office, General Staff, India
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'Map to illustrate the Military Report on Tehran and adjacent provinces in N. W. Persia', British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/23, f 302, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/node/9644> [accessed 9 June 2026]
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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/23, f 302
- Title
- 'Map to illustrate the Military Report on Tehran and adjacent provinces in N. W. Persia'
- Pages
- 302r:302v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence