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Sangsar is a city situated in the Semnan Province
Semnan Province

Semnan is one of the 30 provinces of Iran of Iran. It is in the north of the country, and its center is Semnan, Iran. The province of Semnan covers an area of 96,816 square kilometers and stretches along the Alborz mountain range and borders to Dasht-e Kavir desert in its southern parts....
 of Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
 on the southern slopes of the Alborz mountains, the administrative centre Mehdishehr county.






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Sangsar
Sangesar(a H)1
 
Languages Sangesari, Persian
Persian language

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Mayor  
Latitude
Latitude

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35 ° 42 ’ North 53 ° 21 ’ East
Population
Population

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21,006
Time zone
Time zone

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GMT
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 +3.5
Dialling code +98 232


Sangsar is a city situated in the Semnan Province
Semnan Province

Semnan is one of the 30 provinces of Iran of Iran. It is in the north of the country, and its center is Semnan, Iran. The province of Semnan covers an area of 96,816 square kilometers and stretches along the Alborz mountain range and borders to Dasht-e Kavir desert in its southern parts....
 of Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
 on the southern slopes of the Alborz mountains, the administrative centre Mehdishehr county. In the northern part it has a common boundary with Mazandaran Province
Mazandaran Province

History...
. Here, the chain of Alborz mountains
Alborz

Alborz , also written as Alburz or Elburz, is a mountain range in northern Iran stretching from the borders of Armenia in the northwest to the southern end of the Caspian Sea, and ending in the east at the borders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan....
 is very close to the desert
Désert

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 of Dasht-e Kavir
Dasht-e Kavir

Dasht-e Kavir , also known as Kavir-e Namak or Great Salt Desert is a large desert lying in the middle of the Plateau of Iran. It is about 800 kilometers long and 320 kilometers wide with a total surface area of about 77,600 square kilometers ....
. Sangesar, specially the northern part of it, is completely mountainous with cold winters, heavy snowfalls but with mild summers.

The area of the county is about 1100 square kilometers. The distance between Sangsar city and Semnan city is 20 kilometers. The altitude is about 1630 meters above sea level.

The primary religious belief in the area now is Shi‘ite Islam, but before the Islamic Revolution, there were also a great number of Bahá'ís
Bahá'í Faith

The 'Bah?'? Faith' is a monotheism religion founded by Bah?'u'll?h in nineteenth-century Persian Empire#Persia and Europe , emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind....
 in Sangsar, who had to migrate from the city after the revolution, due to a wide range of persecutions.

The most important network of roads consists of Semnan
Semnan, Iran

Semnan is a city in Semnan Province, northern Iran with a population estimated at 119,778 inhabitants It is the provincial capital of Semnan province....
 to Sangsar to Shahmirzad to Fooladmahale axis which connects these places with the city of Sari
Sari, Iran

Sari is the provincial capital of Mazandaran, located in the north of Iran, between the northern slopes of the Alborz Mountains and southern coast of Mazandaran Sea....
. This road connects the two provinces of Mazandaran and Semnan.

See also

  • Sangiseri language