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Interesting Facts About Iran The word Iran means the ‘Land of the Aryan’s. The for­mer name of Iran was Per­sia, which was in use till 1935. Iran ranks sev­enth among coun­tries in the world as regards num­ber of World Her­itage Sites rec­og­nized by UNESCO . Iran ranks sec­ond in the world in nat­ural gas and third in oil reserves. Alexander’s wife, Rox­anne, was an Iran­ian. “Roshanak” in Farsi Per­sians have a dif­fer­ent lan­guage and iden­tity from the rest of the Mid­dle East. Iran has bor­ders with ten coun­tries, namely Arme­nia, Azer­bai­jan, Turk­menistan, Afghanistan, Pak­istan, Oman, United Arab Emi­rates, Kuwait, Iraq and Turkey. The largest eth­nic group of Iran is Per­sian, con­sti­tut­ing about 51 per­cent of the population. Major­ity of the pop­u­la­tion of Iran is Shi­ite Muslim. Famous west­ern poets influ­enced by Per­sian poets: Ralph Waldo Emer­son, Wolf­gang Von Goethe. Iran’s con­sti­tu­tion and Par­lia­ment were cre­ated on A...