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Map of the Iran–Iraq border. The Iran–Iraq border runs for 1,599 km (994 mi) from the tripoint with Turkey in the north down to the Shatt al-Arab (known as Arvand Rud in Iran) waterway and out to the Persian Gulf in the south. [1] Although the boundary was first determined in 1639, certain disputes continue, particularly surrounding ...
Iran has international borders with 13 sovereign countries, both on land and sea. It has a total of 5,894 kilometres (3,662 mi) land borders with Iraq, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. [1]
This is a list of cities in Iran, categorized by province. The census years listed below comes from the Statistical Center of Iran; [1] [2] since the year 2006 the country of Iran has had a census every 5 years. The cities that are bold are capitals of provinces, counties & districts. Iran has 31 provinces and 1245 cities.
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Map of administrative subdivisions of Iran in 1911, Tehran, eyalats, and velayats. Iran has held its modern territory since the Treaty of Paris in 1857. Prior to 1937, Iran had maintained its feudal administrative divisional structure, dating back to the time the modern state was centralized by the Safavid dynasty in the 16th century. Although ...
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]
While its proven oil reserves of 145 billion barrels (23.1 × 10 ^ 9 m 3) ranks Iraq fifth in the world behind Iran, the United States Department of Energy estimates that up to 90 percent of the country remains unexplored. Unexplored regions of Iraq could yield an additional 100 billion barrels (16 × 10 ^ 9 m 3). Iraq's oil production costs ...
Iran's counties (Persian: شهرستان, romanized as šahrestân) are administrative divisions of larger provinces (ostan). The word shahrestan comes from the Persian words شهر shahr (city) and ستان stân ("place, land"). "County", therefore, is a near equivalent to شهرستان (šahrestân).