Metroji clue #52

Isfahan in five emoji

Iran

The Safavid capital from 1598, laid out around a square that is still one of the largest anywhere. There is an old couplet that Isfahan is half the world.

What each emoji refers to

Naqsh-e Jahan square has a mosque at one end and another on the side, both faced entirely in tile.
Si-o-se-pol has thirty-three arches. People sit in them and sing, because the acoustics carry.
The carpet workshops here worked to court designs rather than tribal patterns.
Qalamkar is block printed cotton, still stamped by hand in the bazaar.
Hundreds of pigeon towers were built around the city to collect droppings for fertilising the melon fields.

Isfahan at a glance

Country
Iran
Coordinates
32.65Β° N, 51.67Β° E
First played
Also accepted
Esfahan

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Isfahan.

City Distance Direction
TehranIran 340 km
Kuwait CityKuwait 510 km
BaghdadIraq 680 km
ManamaBahrain 720 km
DohaQatar 820 km
AshgabatTurkmenistan 840 km

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