<Tr> <Th> Length </Th> <Td> 2000km </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Area </Th> <Td> 3,700,000 square kilometres </Td> </Tr> <P> The Persian Plateau, or Iranian Plateau, is a geological formation in Western Asia and Central Asia . It is the part of the Eurasian Plate wedged between the Arabian and Indian plates, situated between the Zagros Mountains to the west, the Caspian Sea and the Kopet Dag to the north, the Armenian Highlands and the Caucasus Mountains in the northwest, the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf to the south and the Indus River to the east in Pakistan . </P> <P> As a historical region, it includes Parthia, Media, Persis, the heartlands of Iran and some of its recently lost territories . The Zagros Mountains form the plateau's western boundary, and its eastern slopes may be included in the term . The Encyclopædia Britannica excludes "lowland Khuzestan" explicitly and characterizes Elam as spanning "the region from the Mesopotamian plain to the Iranian Plateau". </P>

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