Official name
Islamic Republic of Iran
Name in local language
جمهوری اسلامی ايران - Jomhuriye Eslâmiye Irân (prs)
Continent
Asia
Subcontinent
Western Asia
Population (ranking: 19e )
81,920,730 inhabitants (2018)
Population growth
1.24 % / year
Area
1,629,771 km²
Density
50.27 inhabitants / km²
GDP (ranking: 30e )454.013 billions $USD (2018)
GDP/capita (ranking )
5,628 $USD (2018)
GDP growth
3.80 % / year (2018)
Life expectancy (ranking )
76.50 years (2018)
Birth rate
17.99 ‰ (2015)
Fertility rate
1.66 children / woman (2016)
Death rate (ranking )
5.94 ‰ (2015)
Infant mortality rate (ranking )
38.04 ‰ (2015)
Literacy rate
87.60 % (2016)
Official languages
Persian
Currency
Rial (IRR)
HDI (ranking: 91e )0.797 / 1 (2018)
EPI (ranking )58.16 (2018)
Government
Unitary Khomeinist presidential Islamic republic (de jure) ; Theocratic-republican authoritarian unitary presidential republic subject to a Supreme Leader (de facto)
Head of State
President Hassan Rouhani ; Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
National Day
1st April (Iranian Islamic Republic Day, establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979)
ISO Codes IR, IRN
Demonym
Iranian
Tourists (ranking )
4,867,000 people (2017)
Iran is a country in West Asia. It shares borders with Afghanistan , Armenia , Azerbaijan , Iraq , Pakistan , Turkmenistan and Turkey .
Iran – Lake Amir Kabir Tehran – panorama. Photo: Maryam Ashoori Urban areas (2017)
Urban areas
Population
Tehran
15,980,037 inhabitants
Isfahan
3,569,639 inhabitants
Mashhad
3,001,184 inhabitants
Shiraz
1,565,572 inhabitants
Tabriz
1,558,693 inhabitants
Qom
1,201,158 inhabitants
Ahvaz
1,184,788 inhabitants
Kermanshah
946,651 inhabitants
Orumieh
662,734 inhabitants
Zāhedān
640,031 inhabitants
Resht
612,516 inhabitants
Kermān
573,449 inhabitants
Hamadān
498,672 inhabitants
Arāk
471,770 inhabitants
Bandar-e Abbas
426,353 inhabitants
Ābādān
242,730 inhabitants
Administrative divisions
Provinces
Population
Area
Alborz
2,412,513 inhabitants
5,122 km²
Ardabil
1,270,420 inhabitants
17,800 km²
Bushehr
1,163,400 inhabitants
22,743 km²
Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari
947,763 inhabitants
16,328 km²
East Azerbaijan
3,909,652 inhabitants
45,651 km²
Fars
4,851,274 inhabitants
122,608 km²
Gilan
2,530,696 inhabitants
14,042 km²
Golestan
1,868,819 inhabitants
20,367 km²
Hamadan
1,738,234 inhabitants
19,368 km²
Hormozgân
1,776,415 inhabitants
70,697 km²
Ilam
580,158 inhabitants
20,133 km²
Isfahan
5,120,850 inhabitants
107,018 km²
Kerman
3,164,718 inhabitants
180,726 km²
Kermanshah
1,952,434 inhabitants
25,009 km²
Khuzestan
4,710,509 inhabitants
64,055 km²
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
713,052 inhabitants
15,504 km²
Kurdistan
1,603,011 inhabitants
29,137 km²
Lorestan
1,760,649 inhabitants
28,294 km²
Markazi
1,429,475 inhabitants
29,127 km²
Mazandaran
3,283,582 inhabitants
23,842 km²
North Khorasan
863,092 inhabitants
28,434 km²
Qazvin
1,273,761 inhabitants
15,567 km²
Qom
1,151,672 inhabitants
11,526 km²
Razavi Khorasan
6,434,501 inhabitants
118,851 km²
Semnan
702,360 inhabitants
97,491 km²
See also
