Iran (irn)

Iran

Iran ranks 1,009th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Marietta, Georgia, Vladimir, Russia, and Stockholm Palace. Memorable people born in Iran include Xerxes I, Darius III, and Bodhidharma. Memorable people who died in Iran include Eumenes, Atossa, and Ala ad-Din Tekish. Iran has been the birth place of many politicians, and philosophers and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels. Iran is located in Iran.

Iran, also known as Persia and officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Iraq to the west and Turkey to the northwest, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman & the Persian Gulf to the south. With almost 90 million people in an area of 1.648 million square kilometres, Iran ranks 17th in the world in both geographic size and population. The country is divided into five regions with 31 provinces. The nation's capital and most populous city is Tehran, with around 16 million people in its metropolitan area, other major urban centres include Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, and Shiraz. Read more on Wikipedia