page_title: Zahedan
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Zahedan / Transport
caption_attribution_description: English: Zahedan
context_page_description: Zahedan is a city and capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 587,730.
context_section_description: Zahedan is served by Zahedan International Airport.
  Highway 95 links Zahedan to Tehran and Mashhad in the north and the port of Bandar Chabahar on the Sea of Oman in the south, and Highway 84 to the Pakistani city of Quetta in the east and to Kerman in the west.
  For many years, a broad gauge railway line has extended from Zahedan railway station to Quetta railway station in Pakistan along the Quetta–Taftan Railway Line. More recently, a standard gauge line was completed from Zahedan to Kerman in central Iran, linking Zahedan with the rest of the Iranian rail network. This was the result of an 18 May 2007, MOU for rail cooperation that was signed by Pakistan and Iran under which the line was to be completed by December 2008. The line was officially completed with an opening ceremony on 19 June 2009. This makes Zahedan the location of the break of gauge between the Islamic Republic of Iran Railway's standard gauge tracks and Pakistan Railway's broad gauge tracks.
caption: Zahedan railway station
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