Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Tehran
- Region
- Asia, Southern Asia
- Population
- 92,417,681 (2025)
- Area
- 1,648,000 km²
- Currency
- Iranian rial (IRR)
- Languages
- Persian, Kurdish
- Calling code
- +98
- Internet domain
- .ir, ایران.
- ISO codes
- IR, IRN, 364
- Time zone
- UTC+3:30
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ########## (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Iran covers about 1,648,000 square kilometres. By area it ranks 19th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Libya and a little larger than Mongolia. It shares a land border with 7 neighbours: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Türkiye. Its centre lies at about 32° north, 53° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
AfghanistanKabul
ArmeniaYerevan
AzerbaijanBaku
IraqBaghdad
PakistanIslamabad
TurkmenistanAshgabat
TürkiyeAnkara
People
About 92.4 million people live in Iran (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 17th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 1.1 percent of the world's people. On average there are 56 people to each square kilometre. About 77 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 78 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Persian, Kurdish. A person from Iran is called Iranian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Iranian rial (code IRR, symbol ﷼). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 363 billion (2025), which is about US$ 3,924 for each person (2025).
Time
Iran uses one time zone, UTC+3:30 (Asia/Tehran). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Tehran | 7,153,309 |
| Mashhad | 2,307,177 |
| Isfahan | 1,547,164 |
| Karaj | 1,448,075 |
| Tabriz | 1,424,641 |
| Shiraz | 1,249,942 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Southern Asia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.