Iran

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Iran. Iran is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 1 contested area is marked with hatching: Abu Musa I. (marked at minimum size, not to scale). 10 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 42.3°E to 65.1°E and 23.7°N to 41.1°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.Abu Musa I. — status contested; see the list below.

Iran is filled. The 18 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The hatched area is contested, and Aletheia takes no position on it. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. One of them is smaller than this map can draw and is marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is its position, not its size or shape.

10 parts of Iran in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 32.4°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 42.3°E–65.1°E, 23.7°N–41.1°N.

Disputed areas involving Iran

One area whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on it. It is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    3 sources from Iranin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.

    • Mehr News (English)
    • Tehran Times
    • IRNA

    sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.

  3. National legislature

    Islamic Consultative Assembly ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Tehran

    36°C / 96°FMainly clearwind 13 km/h / 8 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Tehran, 2026-09-20Sunrise 5:50 AM · sunset 6:04 PM12h 14m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    IRNuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    220 Vcited
    Capital
    Tehranuncited
    Official language
    Persiancited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    president.ir ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Iran: the UN's 2025 estimate is 92,417,681 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 1.6 more a minute. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    92,417,681 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    91,567,738 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 1.6 more a minute (850,508 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    92,417,6812025
    GDP
    362,682,115,4332025
    GDP per capita
    3,9242025
    Life expectancy at birth
    77.9 years2024
    Exports
    25.8%2025
    Imports
    34.5%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    استقلال، آزادی، جمهوری اسلامی
    the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0)
    Founded
    1979
    Official religion
    Islam
    National anthem
    National Anthem of the Islamic Republic of Iran

    Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    30 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Chogha Zanbil · inscribed 1979
    2. Persepolis · inscribed 1979
    3. Naqsh-e Jahan Square · inscribed 1979
    4. Takht-e Soleyman · inscribed 2003
    5. Pasargadae · inscribed 2004
    6. Bam · inscribed 2004

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    7. Soltaniyeh · inscribed 2005
    8. Behistun · inscribed 2006
    9. Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran · inscribed 2008
    10. Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System · inscribed 2009
    11. Sheikh Safi al-Din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble · inscribed 2010
    12. Tabriz Bazaar · inscribed 2010
    13. The Persian Garden · inscribed 2011
    14. Jameh Mosque of Isfahan · inscribed 2012
    15. Gonbad-e Qabus · inscribed 2012
    16. Golestan Palace · inscribed 2013
    17. Shahr-e Sukhteh · inscribed 2014
    18. Maymand · inscribed 2015
    19. Dasht-e Lut · inscribed 2016
    20. Persian Qanat · inscribed 2016
    21. Heritage district of Yazd · inscribed 2017
    22. Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region · inscribed 2018
    23. Hyrcanian Forests · inscribed 2019 · shared with Azerbaijan
    24. Trans-Iranian Railway · inscribed 2021
    25. Cultural Landscape of Hawraman/Uramanat · inscribed 2021
    26. Persian Caravanserai · inscribed 2023
    27. Ecbatana · inscribed 2024
    28. Alamūt Castle and Related Fortifications · inscribed 2026
    29. Susa
    30. Prehistoric Sites of the Khorramabad Valley

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 110listed as: police
    • 115listed as: emergency medical services
    • 125listed as: fire department

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    IRR

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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