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  "ur": "تہران، ایران"
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  "ar": "عاصمة إيران عند سفوح جبال البرز؛ اتخذها القاجاريون داراً للملك سنة 1788م، وهي مركز البلاد السياسي والعلمي والنشر.",
  "en": "Capital of Iran at the foot of the Alborz; made the Qajar seat in 1788, it is the country's political, scholarly and publishing centre.",
  "ur": "ایران کا دارالحکومت البرز پہاڑوں کے دامن میں؛ 1788ء سے قاجار سلطنت کا مرکز اور ملک کا سیاسی و علمی مرکز۔"
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  35.6892,
  51.389
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   "note": "Semantic merge of duplicate records written by parallel enrichment runs.",
   "source": "Wikidata item Q3616 (labels, coordinates, country), read via the Wikidata API in the person-place geo-enrichment run.; GeoNames gazetteer entry and Wikidata Q3616; coordinates the city's gazetteer point"
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