Iran

General matters

Country Name: Iran (Iran)

The capital: Tehran

Population : 84,900,000 ('20)

Area (km²) 1,640,000 (7.5 times the size of the Korean Peninsula)

Language: Persian

Religious: Islam (98%) * Shia 94% and Sunni 4%

Ethnic Persians (61%), Azerbaijan (16%) and Kurds (10%)

politics

the form of government: Orthodox Islamic Republic

a major figure

Supreme Leader: Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (Khamenei)

President: Ebrahim Raisi

Speaker of the National Assembly: Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (Galibaf)

Foreign Minister: Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (Amir-Abdollahian)

Economy

GDP($): 610,700,000,000 ('20 IMF)

GDP per capita: ($)7,257 ('20 IMF)

monetary unit: Iranian Rial (Official Exchange Rate: IR 42,000 = $1) ('21.2)

a major resource

Gas reserves: 31.9 trillion cubic meters (2nd in the world) ('18, BP)

Oil reserves: 155.6 billion barrels (4th in the world) ('18, BP)