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Provinces of Iran by contribution to national GDP in 2014 Provinces of Iran by GDP per capita in 2012. 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.
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 2006, Iran has conducted a census every five years. Cities in bold indicate provincial, county, or district capitals. Iran is divided into 31 provinces and includes a total of 1,245 cities.
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. (پیشینه تقسیمات کشوری ایران []) 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)."
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: بخش, romanized: bakhsh).
Mazandaran province (Persian: استان مازندران; pronunciation ⓘ) [a] [b] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.Its capital is the city of Sari. [7] Located along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and in the adjacent Central Alborz mountain range and Hyrcanian forests, it is bordered clockwise by Russia (across the sea), Golestan, Semnan, Tehran, Alborz, Qazvin, and Gilan Provinces.
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Tehran is the commercial heart of Iran. Tehran Province has over 17,000 industrial units employing 390,000 people, 26% of all units in Iran. The province contains 30% of Iran's economy, and comprises 40% of Iran's consumer market. The province has three hydro dams namely Latiyan, Lar, and Amir Kabir as well as two natural lakes, providing the ...
The province is in the southeast of Iran. In 2014 it was placed in Region 5 . [ 5 ] Mentioned in ancient times as the Achaemenid satrapy of Carmania , [ 6 ] Kerman province has an area of 183,285 km 2 (70,767 sq mi), encompassing nearly 11% of the land area of Iran.