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Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. With a population of over 92 million, Iran ranks 17th globally in both geographic size and population. It is divided into five regions with 31 provinces. Tehran is the nation's capital and largest city and serves as its primary economic center.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED
These are English demonyms for people from Iran. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.
Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS
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Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.
An empire centered in Iran; parts of these modern countries were held at different times, not for its entire lifespan.
Ancient accounts describe an eagle standard. Modern flag reconstructions should not be mistaken for a surviving national flag.
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Oneasy; public domain on Wikimedia Commons. Modern artist's reconstruction.
Reconstructed royal banner
Centered in Iran and Mesopotamia; its wider frontiers shifted over time.
The Derafsh Kaviani is described as a royal banner. Its familiar modern drawings are reconstructions, not surviving cloth.
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An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.
Twelver Ja'fari Shia Islam is the official religion and school of law.
Status referenceLargest religious group: Islam (official population classification)
Context; no percentages shownOfficial religious categories and anonymous surveys can give very different pictures of personal belief. Do not interpret official classification as a measure of private practice.
Affiliation source & methodologyBEYOND THE MAP
Places and things the general-knowledge library connects to Iran. Open one to follow its connections, then practise them with typed recall.
Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.
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| Tehran capital | 7,153,309 |
| Mashhad | 2,307,177 |
| Isfahan | 1,547,164 |
| Karaj | 1,448,075 |
| Tabriz | 1,424,641 |
Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.
Theocratic republic.
mostly arid or semiarid, subtropical along Caspian coast
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Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: languages, past leaders.
