Iran
Iran is in Southern Asia, with its capital at Tehran and an area of about 1,648,195 km². Explore its flag, anthem, population, GDP ranking, government, natural resources, provinces and major cities on an interactive 3D globe.
- Official name
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Capital
- Tehran
- Region
- Asia · Southern Asia
- Area
- 1,648,195 km²
- Languages
- Persian (Farsi)
- Currencies
- Iranian rial (IRR)
- Government
- Unitary Islamic republic
- Natural resources
- petroleum, natural gas, coal, chromium, copper, iron ore, lead, manganese, zinc, sulfur
- Industries
- petroleum, petrochemicals, gas, fertilizer, caustic soda, textiles, cement and other construction materials, food processing (particularly sugar refining and vegetable oil production), ferrous and nonferrous metal fabrication, armaments
- Main exports
- plastics, iron ore, alcohols, natural gas, refined copper
First-level divisions (31)
- Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
- East Azerbaijan
- Fars
- Gilan
- Golestan
- Hormozgan
- Khuzestan
- Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
- Kurdistan
- Lorestan
- Markazi
- Mazandaran
- North Khorasan
- Razavi Khorasan
- Sistan and Baluchestan
- South Khorasan
- West Azerbaijan
- Bushehr
- Isfahan
- Kerman
- Semnan
- Yazd
- Alborz
- Ardabil
- Hamadan
- Ilam
- Kermanshah
- Qazvin
- Qom
- Tehran
- Zanjan
Major cities
- Tehran (population 7,873,000)
- Mashhad (population 2,469,000)
- Isfahan (population 1,628,000)
- Karaj (population 1,423,000)
- Tabriz (population 1,413,000)
- Shiraz (population 1,240,000)
- Ahwaz (population 996,000)
- Qom (population 973,000)
- Kermanshah (population 828,313)
- Zahedan (population 598,887)
- Rasht (population 594,590)
- Kerman (population 577,514)
- Urmia (population 577,307)
- Hamadan (population 528,256)
- Arak (population 503,647)