TEHRAN (MNA) -- The first Iranian comparative atlas, entitled “Iran’s Atlas”, was unveiled on April 26 during a ceremony at the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran.

Authors Mohammad Taleqani, Ali Goli, Masud Kosari, and other compilers of the book, Professor Christian Bromberger, who is the head of the Iranian branch of France’s Iranology Foundation, the foundation’s publications department director Dominique Carnoy-Torab, and several professors from Iranian and foreign universities attended the ceremony.

“The book is to have a print run of 800 in Iran and will also be published in Belgium and France,” Bromberger said in a speech at the event.

The foundation publishes books on anthropology, archaeology, economics, and history, he explained.

“Articles by professors from around the world are also published in the foundation’s journals,” he added.

Seyyed Mohammad Beheshti, the former director of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization (CHTO) Research Center, said that the atlas will help experts analyze development in the country’s underprivileged regions.

“The book will play a very important role in alleviating the sense of isolation in these regions,” Beheshti added.

The University of Tehran, the University of Paris 10, the Iranian branch of France’s Iranology Foundation, and Moin Publications collaborated in the publication of the book.

“Iran’s Atlas” is a compilation of comparative statistics in the fields of culture, population, and economics based on censuses and housing surveys taken between 1986 and 1996.