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Provinces of Iran. Iran is subdivided into thirty-one provinces (Persian: استان ostân), each governed from a local centre, usually the largest local city, which is called the capital (Persian: مرکز, markaz) of that province. The provincial authority is headed by a governor-general (Persian: استاندار ostândâr), who is ...
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)."
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 ...
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.
Fars (Pars) province (Persian: استان فارس; / fɑːrs /) [a] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Shiraz. [11] The province has an area of 122,400 km 2 and is located in Iran's southwest, in Region 2. [12] Fars neighbours the provinces of Bushehr to the west; Hormozgan to the south; Kerman and Yazd to the east ...
Khuzestan is the major oil-producing region of Iran, and as such is one of the wealthiest provinces in Iran. Khuzestan ranks third among Iran's provinces in GDP. [71] In 2005, Iran's government announced it was planning the country's second nuclear reactor to be built in Khuzestan province. [72] The 360 MW reactor will be a light water PWR ...
Gilan province. Gilan province (Persian: استان گیلان) [a] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, in the northwest of the country. Its capital is the city of Rasht. [12] The province lies along the Caspian Sea, in Iran's Region 3, west of the province of Mazandaran, east of the province of Ardabil, and north of the provinces of Zanjan and ...
Ilam province, with an area of 20,150 km 2 (7,780 sq mi), is the 22nd largest province in Iran. It is located in the southwest of the country, in Central Zagros, and is bordered by Iraq to the west, Khuzestan province to the south, Lorestan province to the east, and Kermanshah province to the north.