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  2. Regions of Iran - Wikipedia

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    Map of provinces of Iran, 1937–1960. In 1937 the territory of Iran was divided into ten administrative regions: Region 1 , Region 2 , Region 10 , etc. For example, Region 7 or "Seventh Province" corresponded to present-day Fars Province per the "Territorial Subdivision Act of 1316 Š./1937 (Qānūn-e taqsīmāt-e kešvar)." [3]

  3. Provinces of Iran - Wikipedia

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    Article 1 - Guarded Domain of Iran, for the facilitation of political affairs, will be subdivided into Eyalats and Velayats Article 2 - Eyalat is a part of the kingdom which includes a central government and subordinate governor-ruled Velayats and at the moment there only are four Eyalat : Azerbaijan, Kerman and Baluchistan, Fars, Khurasan.

  4. Administrative divisions of Iran - Wikipedia

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    Administrative divisions of Iran. The first level of country subdivisions of Iran are the provinces (Persian: استان‌ها; ostānhā). Each province is further subdivided into counties called shahrestan (Persian: شهرستان, romanized: shahrestān), and each county (or shahrestan) is subdivided into districts called bakhsh (Persian ...

  5. History of Iran - Wikipedia

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    History of Iran. The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was known in the Western world) is intertwined with Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning from Anatolia to the Indus River and from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf. Central to this area is modern-day Iran, which covers the bulk of the Iranian plateau.

  6. North Khorasan province - Wikipedia

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    0.745 [3] high · 29th. North Khorasan province (Persian: استان خراسان شمالی) [a] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, located in the northeast of the country. Its capital is the city of Bojnord. [4] North Khorasan is one of the three provinces that were created after the division of Khorasan in 2004. Khorasan was the largest ...

  7. South Khorasan province - Wikipedia

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    Website. sko.ir. South Khorasan province (Persian: استان خراسان جنوبی) [ a ] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, located in the eastern part of the country. Its capital is the city of Birjand. [ 4 ] In 2014, the province was placed in Region 5.

  8. Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran - Wikipedia

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    The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran or Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia was the joint invasion of the neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in August 1941. The two powers announced that they would stay until six months after the end of the war with their mutual enemy, Nazi Germany (World War II), which turned ...

  9. Demographics of Iran - Wikipedia

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    Demographics of Iran. Population of Iranian provinces and counties in 2021. Iran 's population increased dramatically during the later half of the 20th century, reaching about 80 million by 2016. [2][3] As of July 2024, Iran's population is around 89.8 million. [4]