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Iran » Key Facts

Capital

Tehran.
Population: 7.2 million (UN estimate 2003).

Government

Islamic Republic since 1979.

Geography

Iran is located in the Middle East, bordered to the north by Turkmenistan and the Caspian Sea, the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and the west by Iraq and Turkey. The centre and east of the country are largely barren undulating desert, punctured by qanats (irrigation canals) and green oases, but there are mountainous regions in the west along the Turkish and Iraqi borders and in the north where the Elburz Mountains rise steeply from a fertile belt around the Caspian Sea.

Electricity

230 volts AC, 50Hz. Plugs are of the round two-pin type.

Head Of State

Supreme Leader (Rahbar-e Moazam) Grand Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khameni since 1989.
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