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Persian Gulf Complex

shopping mall in Shiraz, Iran

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ7170209
Source-derived summary

Persian Gulf Complex is the 18th largest shopping mall in the world, located in Shiraz, Iran.

It is the second biggest mall in terms of the number of shops after Iran Mall in the world.

Description

The facility has space for 2,500 stores covering 500,000 square metres (5,400,000 sq ft).

The complex includes the Fars Tower International, a 262-room hotel, an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, tennis court, convention centre and a helipad. In addition, there are two amusement parks at the mall, an outdoor amusement park called Iran Land, covering 37,000 square metres (400,000 sq ft), and an indoor amusement park covering 28,000 square metres (300,000 sq ft) with video games, a bowling alley and a 3-story billiard hall. The mall also has six 240-seat cinema. A 14,000-square-metre (150,000 sq ft) Carrefour Hypermarket is also located within the mall. The complex has four floors of parking space that can accommodate a total of 5,500 vehicles.

Management

The Persian Gulf Complex is managed by Royal Star International (Setareh Trading Complex).

Editorial summary

“Persian Gulf Complex” enters the record as shopping mall in Shiraz, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Persian, Gulf and Complex can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 170-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Persian, Gulf and Complex.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7170209. Authority coordinates are 29.757, 52.434. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from Persian Gulf Complex” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.