Does Iran have provinces?

Iran is subdivided into thirty-one provinces (Persian: استان Ostān), each governed from a local centre, usually the largest local city, which is called the capital (Persian: مرکز, markaz) of that province.

What is the biggest province in Iran?

Kerman Province
Kerman Province (Persian: استان کرمان, Ostān-e Kermān) is the largest province of the 31 provinces of Iran. Kerman is in the southeast of Iran with its administrative center in the city of Kerman.

Which province is Tehran?

Tehran Province borders Mazandaran Province in the north, Qom Province in the south, Semnan Province in the east, and Alborz Province in the west. The metropolis of Tehran is the capital city of the province and of Iran….Tehran Province.

Tehran Province استان تهران
Country	Iran
Region	Region 1
Capital	Tehran
Counties	16

What race are Gilaks?

Iranian
Gilaks (Gileki: گیلک) are an Iranian ethnic group native to the northern Iranian province of “Gilan”. They call themselves Gilani which means “from Gilan”. They form one of the main ethnic groups residing in the northern parts of Iran.

Does Iran have districts?

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).

What area is Iran?

636,400 mi²
Iran/Area

Iran covers an area of 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country entirely in Asia, and the second-largest in Western Asia (after Saudi Arabia). Its population is 85 million, the 17th-most populous in the world. The capital and largest city is Tehran.

Is Iran an Arab country?

Most Middle Eastern countries (13 out of 18) are part of the Arab world. The most populous countries in the region are Egypt, Iran, and Turkey, while Saudi Arabia is the largest Middle Eastern country by area.

Is Azerbaijan in Iran?

Azerbaijan is a region, part of Iran since the Persian Empire to now, but some small parts of it were divided from Iran by the Soviet Union. Iranian Azerbaijan is comprised of Ardabil and Zanjan Provinces, as well as the East and West Azerbaijan provinces of Iran.

Is Iran and Tehran the same?

Tehrān, also spelled Teheran, the capital city of Iran and the centre of the province (ostān) of Tehrān, located in north-central Iran at the foot of the Elburz mountain range.

What continent is Tehran?

Asia
Tehran/Continent
With a population of around 8.7 million in the city and 15 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo).

Are Iranians Arabs?

Iran and Turkey are not Arab countries and their primary languages are Farsi and Turkish respectively. Arab countries have a rich diversity of ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. These include Kurds, Armenians, Berbers and others. There are over 200 million Arabs.

What percentage of Iran is Persian?

According to the CIA World Factbook, Persians in Iran constitute up to 54% of the country’s population. Another source, the United States Library of Congress states Iran’s Persians compose 65% of the country’s population. However, other sources mention that Persians only comprise 50.5%, or 55.3%.