High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Road 56 is a road in central Iran. It connects Qom and via other roads Tehran and Esfahan to the industrial city of Arak. After Arak it goes to northern Lorestan, Borujerd and then to Kermanshah Road. Kermanshah ( Persian: , Kerm nsh h, Gorani Kurdish: Kirmashan/ ), is the capital city of Kermanshah Province, located 525 km from Tehran in the western part of Iran and about 120 km from the border of Iraq. Kermanshah has a continental climate. The estimated population of the city is 822,921 (year 2005) and the majority of the inhabitants speak Persian as well as Kurdish. The religion of the people is very diverse; and there are many Muslims, Assyrians, Bahá'ís, Jews, Yarsan, and Armenians living in Kermanshah but Shi'a Muslims are greatest in number.