COUNTRY FACTS

 

Population

65,619,636  (July 2000 est.)

 

Location

Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea, between Iraq and Pakistan

 

Area:

1.648 million sq km

 

Language:

Persian and Persian dialects, Turkic and Turkic dialects, Kurdish

 

Literacy: 

72.1% (by definition, total population age 15 or older)

 

Compulsory Education:

Education through grade five is considered compulsory, however the Ministry of Education reports that this standard has not be achieved.

 

Currency:

Iranian rials (IR)

Source: UNESCO IBE Database and World Fact Book, CIA

This country profile was developed by WES with funding from the Government of Ontario.

Revised: 05/06/2004
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