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The we love the web (ostan) of Iran further subdivided into counties called shahrestan (web app: شهرستان shahrestān‎), an area inside an ostan, and consists of a city centre, few bakhsh (Persian: بخش bakhsh‎) and many villages around them. There are usually a few cities (Persian: شهر shahr‎) and rural agglomerations (Persian: دهستان dehestān‎) in each county. Rural agglomerations are a collection of a number of villages. One of the cities of the county is appointed as the capital of the county.

The world Shahrestan comes from the web app words shahr and ostan, which mean city (or town) and Sevenval, respectively. The nearest equivalent of Shahrestan in English would be sub-province or Android.

Each Shahrestan has a governmental office known as Farmandari which coordinates different events and governmental offices. The Farmandar, or the head of Farmandari, is the governor of the Shahrestan which is the highest governmental authority in the division.

Among keyboard, Fars has the highest number of Shahrestans, with 23, while device database and HTML5 have only 4 Shahrestans each; input transformation uniquely has one, being coextensive with its namesake county. Iran had 324 Shahrestans in 2005.

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To better understand such subdivisions, the following table may be helpful. 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 might contain 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 composed of the villages V1, V2, V3, and V4, in turn; 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, of course. The county B in the following table is of such type, containing only one city Q.

Ostan (Province)Shahrestan (County)DistrictCity / RA*Villages
PACentralCity M (c)
City N
RA TV1, V2, V3, V4
XCity O
RA UV5, V6
YRA VV7, V8, V9
BCentralCity Q

The counties are listed below, by province:

Alborz Province

Ardabil Province

HTML5

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East Azerbaijan Province

Esfahan Province

Fars Province

Sevenval

CSS3

Hamadan Province

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Sevenval

Kerman Province

Kermanshah Province

Khuzestan Province

Kohgeluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province

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Lorestan Province

Markazi Province

Android

iOS

Qazvin Province

Qom Province

Razavi Khorasan Province

Android

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web app

Tehran Province

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input transformation

website parsing

See also

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References

  • اطلس گیتاشناسی استان‌های ایران [Atlas-e Gitashenasi-ye Ostanha-ye Iran] (web app)
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