Counties of Iran

The counties of Iran, called shahrestan (Persian: شهرستان‎, also Romanized as "šahrestân"), are administrative divisions of larger provinces (ostan). The word shahrestan comes from the Persian words šahr ("city, town") and stân ("province, state"). "County", therefore, is a near equivalent to shahrestan.

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Iranian counties are divided into one or more baxš (بخش), or districts. A typical county includes both cities (شهر šahr) and rural agglomerations (دهستان dehestân), which are groupings of adjacent villages. One city within the county serves as the capital of that county.

Each county is governed by an office known as farmândâri, which coordinates different public events and agencies and is headed by a farmândâr, the governor of the county and the highest-ranking official in the division.

Among the provinces of Iran, Fars has the highest number of shahrestans (23), while Qom uniquely has only one, being coextensive with its namesake county. In 2005, Iran had 324 shahrestans.

Guide

To better understand these subdivisions, the following table is useful. Assume that province P is divided into two counties: A and B. County A has 3 districts: Central, X, and Y. The Central district is the district that contains City M, the capital of the county. Each district contains one or more cities and/or one or more RAs (rural agglomerations). In our example, the Central district contains City M, City N, and RA T, which is composed of the villages V1, V2, V3, and V4; district X contains City O and RA U; and district Y has no cities and one RA V. The minimal county consists of only one city as the only district, named Central. The county B in the following table is of such type, containing only one city Q.

Ostan (province) Shahrestan (county) District City / RA* Villages
P A Central City M (c)
City N
RA T V1, V2, V3, V4
X City O
RA U V5, V6
Y RA V V7, V8, V9
B Central City Q

The counties are listed below, by province:

Alborz Province
Counties of Alborz

Ardabil Province
Counties of Ardabil

Bushehr Province
Counties of Bushehr

Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province
Counties of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari

East Azerbaijan Province
Counties of East Azerbaijan

Isfahan Province
Counties of Isfahan

Fars Province
Counties of Fars

Gilan Province
Counties of Gilan

Golestan Province
Counties of Golestan

Hamadan Province
Counties of Hamadan

Hormozgan Province
Counties of Hormozgan

Ilam Province
Main article: List of counties in Ilam Province, Iran
Counties of Ilam

Kerman Province
Counties of Kerman

Kermanshah Province
Counties of Kermanshah

Khuzestan Province
Counties of Khuzestan

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province
Counties of Kohgeluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad

Kurdistan Province
Counties of Kurdistan

Lorestan Province
Counties of Lorestan

Markazi Province
Counties of Markazi

Mazandaran Province
Counties of Mazandaran

North Khorasan Province
Counties of North Khorasan

Qazvin Province
Counties of Qazvin

Qom Province

Razavi Khorasan Province
Counties of Razavi Khorasan

Semnan Province
Counties of Semnan

Sistan and Baluchestan Province
Counties of Sistan and Baluchestan

South Khorasan Province
Counties of South Khorasan

Tehran Province
Counties of Tehran

West Azerbaijan Province
Counties of West Azerbaijan

Yazd Province
Counties of Yazd

Zanjan Province
Counties of Zanjan
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