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East Azerbaijan is located in Iranian Azerbaijan, bordering with Armenia, Republic of Azerbaijan, Ardabil Province, West Azerbaijan Province, and Zanjan Province

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West Azerbaijan Province is in the northwest of the country, bordering Turkey, Iraq and Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, and the provinces of East Azerbaijan, Zanjan and Kurdistan

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Ardabil is known for its silk and carpet trade tradition. Ardabil rugs are renowned and the ancient Ardabil Carpets are considered some of the best of the classical Persian carpet creations.

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the capital of Isfahan Province in Iran, located about 340 kilometres (211 miles) south of Tehran. It has a population of 1,755,382 and is Iran's third largest city after Tehran and Mashhad

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It is in the west of the country, bordering Iraq. Its provincial center is the city of Ilam. Covering an area of 19,086 square kilometers include Ilam, Mehran, Dehloran, Darreh Shahr, Sarable, Eyvan, Abdanan and Arkwaz cities

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It is in the south of the country, with a long coastline onto the Persian Gulf. Its center is Bandar-e-Bushehr, the provincial capital

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With a population of around 8.4 million in the city and 14 million in the wider metropolitan area Tehran is Iran's largest city and urban area, the largest city in Western Asia

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The province was put as part of Region 2 upon the division of the provinces into 5 regions solely for coordination and development purposes on June 22nd, 2014

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This new province, is but the old Quhistan which was included into greater Khorasan in the Iranian administrative planning. However, historically Qohistan forms a separate entity, with a distinct culture, history, environment and ecology

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Razavi Khorasan is one of the three provinces that were created after the division of Khorasan Province in 2004. In 2014 it was placed in Region 5[2] with Mashhad as the location of the region's secretariat.

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Khorasan Shomali is a province located in northeastern Iran. Bojnord is the centre of the province. In 2014 it was placed in Region

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It is in the southwest of the country, bordering Iraq's Basra Province and the Persian Gulf. Its capital is Ahvaz and it covers an area of 63,238 km2

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Its capital is Zanjan city. Zanjan province with an area of 36,400 km² has a mostly rural, population of 1,015,734

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The province of Semnan covers an area of 96,816 square kilometers and stretches along the Alborz mountain range

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Sistan Va Baluchestanis the largest in Iran, with an area of 181,785 km² and a population of 2.5 million

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It is in the south of the country, in Iran's Region 2 and its administrative center is Shiraz.

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The province is in the north-west of the country, and its center is the city of Qazvin. It was created in 1993 out of part of Tehran Province and includes 20 cities

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Qom is in the north of the country, and its provincial capital is the city of Qom. It was formed from part of Tehran Province in 1995

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The province of Kurdistan is 28,817 km² in area which encompasses just one-fourth of the Kurdish inhabited areas of Iran or Iranian Kurdistan

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Kerman is in the southeast of Iran with its administrative center in the city of Kerman

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Kermanshah is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. The province was known from 1969 to 1986 as Kermanshahan and from 1986 to 1995 as Bakhtaran

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The province is mostly mountainous in terrain, part of the Zagros range. The highest point is the Dena summit with a height of 4,409 meters

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Golestān was split off from the province of Mazandaran in 1997 and located in the north-east of the country south of the Caspian Sea

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The northern part of the province is part of territory of South (Iranian) Talysh. At the center of the province is the main city of Rasht.

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The name Lorestan means "land of the Lurs". In the wider sense it consists of that part of western Iran coinciding with the province of Ilam and extending for about 650 km

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Mazandaran is one of the most densely populated provinces in Iran and has diverse natural resources, especially large reservoirs of oil and natural gas

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Markazi province was part of the Median Empire in the first millennium BC, which included all of the central and western parts of modern-day Iran

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The province is said to have been particularly prosperous between 241 BC and 211 BC, but grew even further in trade and commercial significance after the arrival of the Islamic era

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Hamadan is a very old city. It may conceivably, but improbably, be mentioned in cuneiform texts from ca. 1100 BC, the time of Assyrian King Tiglath-pilesar I

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Yazd province is situated at an oasis where the Dasht-e Kavir desert and the Dasht-e Lut desert meet

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