List of ecoregions in Iran

Terrestrial ecoregions

[Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests]

• Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
• Zagros Mountains forest steppe

  [Temperate coniferous forests]

• Elburz Range forest steppe

  [Temperate [grasslands, savannas, and shrublands]]

• Eastern Anatolian montane steppe

  [Flooded grasslands and savannas]

• Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh

  [Montane grasslands and shrublands]

• Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
• Kuhrud-Kohbanan Mountains forest steppe

  [Deserts and xeric shrublands]

• Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
• Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert
• Caspian lowland desert
• Central Persian desert basins
• Kopet Dag semi-desert
• Mesopotamian shrub desert
• South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert

  Freshwater ecoregions

• Baluchistan
• Caspian Highlands
• Esfahan
• Helmand-Sistan
• Kavir and Lut Deserts
• Kura-South Caspian Drainages
• Namak
• Northern Hormuz Drainages
• Orumiyeh
• Lower Tigris and Euphrates
• Upper Tigris and Euphrates
• Turan Plain
• Upper Amu Darya