Iran (Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum)

Iran (Persian: ایران‎), officially the Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری ایران‎, Jomhuri-ye Irān), is a country in Western Asia. Iran has an area of 1,648,195 km square and a population of around 75 million. It is a country of particular geopolitical significance owing to its location in three spheres of Asia (West, Central, and South).

Iran is bordered on the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. As Iran is a littoral state of the Caspian Sea, which is an inland sea, Kazakhstan and Russia are also Iran's direct neighbors to the north. Iran is bordered on the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by Iraq and on the northwest by Turkey.

Tehran is the capital, the largest city and the political, cultural, commercial and industrial center of Iran. Iran is a regional power, and holds an important position in international energy security and world economy as a result of its large reserves of petroleum and natural gas.