Iran, also called Persia, and officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a country in Western Asia.
It is bordered to the west by Iraq and Turkey, to the northwest by Azerbaijan and Armenia, to the north by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, and to the south by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. Iran covers an area of 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), making it the fourth-largest country entirely in Asia and the second-largest in Western Asia.
Its population is 85 million, the 17th-most populous in the world.
The capital and largest city is Tehran.
0:10:51 - Origins (2000-560 BC)
0:18:21 - Cyrus The Great (560-530 BC)
0:39:17 - Darius The Great (522-486 BC)
0:51:16 - Xerxes The Great (486-465 BC)
0:59:27 - The Successors (465-336 BC)
1:06:13 - Empire’s Eend (336-330 BC)