Provinces of Iran

Iran is divided into 31 provinces (Persian: استان ostān, plural استان‌ها ostānhā). Each is ruled from a local center. These local centers can usually be found in the biggest local city, called the capital (Persian: مرکز markaz) of that province.

Information

The following is a table with information on the provinces of Iran:

Province	Capital	Area(km²)[1]	Population[2]	Density (people/km²)	Shahrestans
Alborz[3]	Karaj	5,833	2,712,400	413.6	4
Ardabil[4]	Ardabil	17,800	1,257,624	70.7	9
Azarbaijan, East	Tabriz	45,650	3,500,183	76.7	19
Azarbaijan, West	Urmia[5]	37,437	2,949,426	78.8	14
Bushehr[6]	Bushehr	22,743	816,115	35.9	9
Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari[7]	Shahrekord	16,332	842,002	51.6	6
Fars	Shiraz	122,608	4,385,869	35.8	23
Guilan	Rasht	14,042	2,410,523	171.7	16
Golestan[8]	Gorgan	20,195	1,637,063	81.1	11
Hamadan[9]	Hamadan	19,368	1,738,772	89.8	8
Hormozgan[10][11]	Bandar Abbas	70,669	1,314,667	18.6	11
Ilam[9]	Ilam	20,133	545,093	27.1	7
Isfahan[12]	Isfahan	107,029	4,454,595	41.6	21
Kerman	Kerman	180,836	2,432,927	13.5	14
Kermanshah[13]	Kermanshah[13]	24,998	1,938,060	77.5	13
Khorasan, North[14]	Bojnourd	28,434	786,918	27.7	6
Khorasan, Razavi[14]	Mashhad	144,681	5,202,770	36.0	19
Khorasan, South[14]	Birjand	69,555	510,218	7.3	4
Khuzestan	Ahvaz	64,055	4,345,607	67.8	18
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad[15][16]	Yasuj	15,504	695,099	44.8	5
Kurdistan[17]	Sanandaj	29,137	1,574,118	54.0	9
Lorestan[15]	Khorramabad	28,294	1,758,628	62.2	9
Markazi[18][12]	Arak	29,130	1,361,394	46.7	10
Mazandaran	Sari	23,701	2,818,831	118.9	15
Qazvin[19]	Qazvin	15,549	1,166,861	75.0	5
Qom[20]	Qom	11,526	1,064,456	92.4	1
Semnan[18][12]	Semnan	97,491	589,512	6.0	4
Sistan and Baluchistan[21]	Zahedan	181,785	2,290,076	12.6	8
Tehran[22]	Tehran	18,814	12,150,742	645.8	13
Yazd[7][23]	Yazd	129,285	958,318	7.4	10
Zanjan[17][12]	Zanjan	21,773	970,946	44.6	7
Iran	Tehran	1,628,554	68,467,413	42.0	324