Chizar ( fa, چیذر) is a neighborhood in

Shemiran Shemirān ( fa, شمیران, , also Romanized as Shemīrān or Šemirân), also known as Shemirānāt ( fa, شمیرانات ) is the capital of Shemiranat County, Tehran Province, Iran, but is actually located just north of the borders of Te ...

, north of

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the Capital city, capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is th ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm ...

. Chizar used to be a village which was gradually annexed to the capital with the expansion of Tehran city. Chizar neighborhood has a long religious history indicated by the presence of Imamzadeh Ali Akbar.

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Neighbourhoods in Tehran {{Tehran-geo-stub