The Islamic republic, Iran, is the easternmost country of the Middle East. The country falls between the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the south.
The country was formerly known as Persia. It is bordered on the land by Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan, and shares maritime borders with Kazakhstan and Russia (in the Caspian Sea), Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
There are about 83 million people (as per recorded data in 2020) currently living in the country. The largest city is Tehran, which is also the capital and the political and economic center of the republic.