Area (sq km): total: 1.648 million sq km land: 1.636 million sq km water: 12,000 sq km
Roadways (km): total: 179,388 km paved: 120,782 km (includes 878 km of expressways) unpaved: 58,606 km (2003)
Languages (%): Persian and Persian dialects 58%, Turkic and Turkic dialects 26%, Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2%
Literacy (%): definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 77% male: 83.5% female: 70.4% (2002 est.)
Currency (code): Iranian rial (IRR)
GDP - per capita (PPP): $11,700 (2007 est.)
GDP - real growth rate (%): 6.2% (2007 est.)
Industries: petroleum, petrochemicals, fertilizers, caustic soda, textiles, cement and other construction materials, food processing (particularly sugar refining and vegetable oil production), ferrous and non-ferrous metal fabrication, armaments
Internet users: 23 million (2007)


Source: CIA - The World Factbook