Kermanshah province

Not to be confused with Kermanshah County.
For the city, see Kermanshah.

Kermanshah Province
Persian: استان کرمانشاه
Province
Location of Kermanshah Province within Iran
Location of Kermanshah Province within Iran
Coordinates: 34°33′N 46°43′E / 34.550°N 46.717°E / 34.550; 46.717[1]
CountryIran
Region4th Region
CapitalKermanshah
Counties14
Government
 • Governor-generalMohammad-Tayyeb Sahraee
Area
 • Total24,998 km2 (9,652 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[2]
 • Total1,952,434
 • Density78/km2 (200/sq mi)
DemonymKermanshahi
Time zoneUTC+03:30 (IRST)
ISO 3166 codeIR-05
Main language(s)Kurdish local
Persian official[3][4]
HDI (2017)0.796[5]
high · 14th
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Kermanshah province (Persian: استان كرمانشاه)[a] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, bordering Iraq. Its capital is the city of Kermanshah.[9]

According to a 2014 segmentation by the Ministry of Interior, it is the center of Region 4,[10] with the region's central secretariat located in Kermanshah.

A majority of people in the province are Shia, and there are Sunni and Yarsani minority groups.[11][12][13][14]

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  4. ^ Borjian, Habib (2017). "KERMANSHAH vii. Languages and Dialects". pp. 327–331. doi:10.7916/D8DJ6T5Q.
  5. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Li Kirmaşan erdhej" (in Kurdish). 1 October 2018. Archived from the original on 13 June 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  7. ^ "بەرپرسانی ڕێژیم بەڵێنی درۆ و بێ بنەما بە خەڵکی لێقەوماوی پارێزگای کرماشان دەدەن" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  8. ^ Natiq Nouri, Ali Akbar (8 February 1372). "Law on changing the name of Bakhtaran province to Kermanshah". Research Center of the System of Laws of the Islamic Council of Farabi Mobile Library (in Persian). Shura Council. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  9. ^ Habibi, Hassan (21 June 1369). "Approval of the organization and chain of citizenship of the elements and units of the national divisions of Bakhtran province, centered in the city of Bakhtran". Research Center of the System of Laws of the Islamic Council of Farabi Mobile Library (in Persian). Ministry of Interior, Defense Political Commission of the Government Board. Archived from the original on 6 February 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  10. ^ "همشهری آنلاین-استان‌های کشور به ۵ منطقه تقسیم شدند (Provinces were divided into 5 regions)". Hamshahri Online (in Persian). 22 June 2014. Archived from the original on 23 June 2014.
  11. ^ www.justice.gov/sites/default/files
  12. ^ "artkermanshah.ir". Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  13. ^ "Ahmady, Kameel. A Peace-Oriented Investigation of the Ethnic Identity Challenge in Iran (A Study of Five Iranian Ethnic Groups with the GT Method), 2022, 13th Eurasian Conferences on Language and Social Sciences pp. 591–624". 13th Eurasian Conferences on Language and Social Sciences.
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