Who is the northwestern  neighbor of the country that boarders Iran on the northeast?
Iran Iran (Persian: ایران‎ ‎ "Irān " ] ), also known as Persia ( ), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی ایران‎ ‎ "Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān " ), is a sovereign state in Western Asia. With over 79.92 million inhabitants (as of August 2017 ), Iran is the world's 18th-most-populous country. Comprising a land area of 1648195 km2 , it is the second-largest country in the Middle East and the 17th-largest in the world. Iran is bordered to the northwest by Armenia, the "de facto" independent Republic of Artsakh, the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan; to the north by the Caspian Sea; to the northeast by Turkmenistan; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman; and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. The country's central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, give it geostrategic importance. Tehran is the country's capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic and cultural center.
Libya Libya (Arabic: ليبيا‎ ‎ "Lībiyā ") is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. The country is made of three historical regions, Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. With an area of almost 1.8 e6km2 , Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, and is the 16th largest country in the world. Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world.