Persia (Persian: ایران), officially the Shahdom of Persia is a country in Central Eurasia and Western Asia. The 18th largest country in the world in terms of area at 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), Persia has a population of over 19 million,which 51% of them are human. It is a country of particular geostrategic significance owing to its location in the Middle East and central Eurasia. Persia is bordered on the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Russian Empire. As Persia is a littoral state of the Caspian Sea, which is an inland sea and condominium.Persia is bordered on the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and on the west by the Byzantine Empire . Tehran is the capital, the country's largest city and the political, cultural, commercia