Has one of the world's oldest continuous civilisations, and its qanat underground aqueducts have watered the plateau for 3,000 years.
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Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran · ایران
Asia
· Southern Asia
0Population
1.65Mkm² of land
$5.48KGDP / person
TehranCapital
- ISO codes
- IR · IRN
- Density
- 50 /km²
- Languages
- Persian (Farsi)
- Currency
- Iranian rial (IRR)
- Dial code
- +98
- Internet domain
- .ir
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 32.1660° N, 54.9310° E
- Demonym
- Iranian
- UN region
- Southern Asia
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $454B
- Sovereignty
- Independent · UN member
- Borders
- 7
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By the numbers
How Iran stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
19th
of 242 · 1.08% of world population
Land area
19th
of 242 · 1.10% of world land
GDP per person
140th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
153rd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Iran
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 82,913,906 people, the 19th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 1.08 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 1,648,195 km², making it the 19th largest country here - about 6.8 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 50 people per km².
The capital is Tehran, at 35.67° N, 51.42° E, with a metropolitan population of about 7,873,000.
Shares land borders with 7 countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Pakistan (and 2 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Tehran.
The currency is the Iranian rial (IRR, symbol ﷼).
The official language is Persian (Farsi).
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Tehran
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UTC+03:30
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
★ Tehran
Tehran
35.6739° N, 51.4224° E
7.87M
2
Mashhad
Razavi Khorasan
36.2720° N, 59.5681° E
2.47M
3
Isfahan
Esfahan
32.7020° N, 51.6981° E
1.63M
4
Tabriz
East Azarbaijan
38.0882° N, 46.2993° E
1.41M
5
Shiraz
Fars
29.6319° N, 52.5681° E
1.24M
6
Ahvaz
Khuzestan
31.2819° N, 48.7181° E
996K
7
Hamadan
Hamadan
34.7960° N, 48.5150° E
528.26K
8
Yazd
Yazd
31.9201° N, 54.3700° E
477.91K
9
Bandar-e-Abbas
Hormozgan
27.2041° N, 56.2721° E
461.5K
🏔 Peaks
Damavand
5,610 m
Land neighbours
7 countries share a border with Iran.