Map of Iran

Iran is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 32.0° N, 53.0° E. It shares land borders with 7 countries — Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey and Turkmenistan — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Iran is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Iran shares land frontiers with the following 7 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Iran covers about 1,648,195 km² (636,372 sq mi). That makes it the 17th-largest country in the world by area and the 6th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 43 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 85,961,000, the 17th-largest in the world and the 9th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 1.8% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Iran has an average population density of about 52 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 9th by population and 6th by area.

The seat of government is Tehran, and the official currency is the Iranian rial (IRR, ﷼), and the main official language is Persian (Farsi). Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:30.

Iran carries the ISO country codes IR and IRN, dials on the international calling code +98 and uses the .ir, ایران. internet domain.

Iran shares its land borders with 7 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Pakistan (capital Islamabad, about 241,499,431 people), Turkey (capital Ankara, about 85,664,944 people), Iraq (capital Baghdad, about 46,118,793 people), Afghanistan (capital Kabul, about 43,844,000 people), Azerbaijan (capital Baku, about 10,241,722 people), Turkmenistan (capital Ashgabat, about 7,057,841 people) and Armenia (capital Yerevan, about 3,076,200 people).

By area, Iran is larger than 7 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 32.0° N, 53.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing Iran within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Tehran. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Iran lies about 3,552 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Iran keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:30. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:30 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Iranian rial (IRR, ﷼).

The official language is Persian (Farsi), which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +98 and websites commonly use the .ir, ایران. internet domain.

In short, Iran is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 7 countries. Its capital is Tehran. Iran has a population of about 85,961,000 and covers around 1,648,195 km² (636,372 sq mi), ranking it 17th in the world by population and 17th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Iran.

The flag of Iran is composed of three equal horizontal bands of green, white and red. A red emblem of Iran is centered in the white band and Arabic inscriptions in white span the bottom edge of the green band and the top edge of the red band.

The flag of Iran is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.