Country Name: Islamic Republic of Iran

International Name: ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Area: 1,648,195 square kilometers

Population: 86 million people in 1403(2024)

Capital: Tehran

Official Religion: Islam

Official Language: Persian

Currency: Rial

 

Geography Iran, with an area of more than 1,648,195 square kilometers (the sixteenth largest country in the world in terms of area), is located in the southwest of the Asian continent and is one of the countries of the Middle East. Iran is geographically located in the southern hemisphere of the northern temperate zone between 03, 25 ° and 47, 39 ° north latitude from the equator and 14, 44 ° and 20, 63 ° east longitude from the Greenwich meridian. About 90 percent of the country's land is located within the Iranian Plateau. Iran's land is generally mountainous and semi-arid, with an average elevation of more than 1,200 meters above sea level. More than half of the country's area is made up of mountains and highlands, a quarter of it is plains, and less than a quarter is cultivated land. The lowest point inland is 56 meters high in the Lut Pit, and the highest is Damavand Peak, 5628 meters high, located in the Alborz Mountain Range. On the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, the ground is 28 meters below sea level.

Iran is bordered to the north by the Republic of Turkmenistan, the Caspian Sea, the Republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia, to the west by Turkey and Iraq, to the east by Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to the south by the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf. In total, the perimeter of Iran is 8,731 kilometers, of which 2,700 kilometers are water borders and 6,031 kilometers are land borders.

 

Highest point in Iran: Damavand Peak with an altitude of 5628 meters

 

Longest river: Karun River with a length of 950 kilometers (the only navigable river)

 

Largest lake: Lake Urmia with an area of 4868 square kilometers

 

Largest island: Qeshm Island with an area of 1491 square kilometers

 

Government: The government of Iran is the Islamic Republic and its national day is the 22nd of Bahman. Its capital is Tehran.

 

Based on the country's divisions in August 2011:

 

Number of provinces: 31

 

Number of cities: 397

 

Number of districts: 984

 

Number of cities: 1154

 

Number of rural districts: 2499

 

Flag: Consists of three equal horizontal rows, with green at the top, white in the middle, and red at the bottom. The national emblem (the word Allah) is in red in the middle of the white section. The word Allahu Akbar is repeated in white and Arabic script 11 times along the bottom edge of the green row and 11 times along the top edge of the red row.

 

Exports: Oil, carpets, fruits, nuts (pistachios, raisins, dates), leather and salambour, caviar, petrochemical products, textiles, clothing, food industry products

 

Imports: Machinery, metal industries, food, pharmaceuticals, technical services, chemical products

 

Industries: Oil, petrochemicals, textiles, cement and other building materials, food processing (especially sugar refining and oil extraction), metal.

 

Agriculture and Aquatic: Wheat, rice, cereals, sugar beets, fruit, oilseeds (pistachios, almonds, walnuts), cotton, dairy products, wool, caviar

 

Currency: Rial

 

Railway transportation: 9,796 km

 

Length of country's roads: 158,000 km

 

Pipelines: Petroleum products: 3900 km, natural gas 4550 km

 

Ports: Abadan, Shahid Beheshti Port, Bandar Abbas, Anzali Port, Bushehr Port, Imam Khomeini Port, Mahshahr Port, Turkman Port, Khorramshahr, Noshahr