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Counties of Iran
00:01:05 1 Guide 00:02:04 2 Alborz Province 00:02:23 3 Ardabil Province 00:02:51 4 Bushehr Province 00:03:18 5 Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province 00:03:45 6 East Azerbaijan Province 00:04:32 7 Isfahan Province 00:05:30 8 Fars Province 00:06:34 9 Gilan Province 00:07:15 10 Golestan Province 00:07:52 11 Hamadan Province 00:08:16 12 Hormozgan Province 00:08:46 13 Ilam Province 00:09:13 14 Kerman Province 00:10:05 15 Kermanshah Province 00:10:43 16 Khuzestan Province 00:11:39 17 Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province 00:12:06 18 Kurdistan Province 00:12:34 19 Lorestan Province 00:13:02 20 Markazi Province 00:13:32 21 Mazandaran Province 00:14:15 22 North Khorasan Province 00:14:39 23 Qazvin Province 00:14:58 24 Qom Province 00:15:08 25 Razavi Khorasan Province 00:16:10 26 Semnan Province 00:16:34 27 Sistan and Baluchestan Province 00:17:16 28 South Khorasan Province 00:17:47 29 Tehran Province 00:18:20 30 West Azerbaijan Province 00:19:02 31 Yazd Province 00:19:30 32 Zanjan Province 00:19:52 33 See also
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The counties of Iran, called shahrestan (Persian: شهرستان 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. 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 farmandari, which coordinates different public events and agencies and is headed by a farmandar, 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.