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Iran (Islamic Republic of): 32 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 32 first-level units down to ADM4, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Map All units Country map
Page GRX-IRN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO IRN / IRStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
32
first-level units
4,300
units at 4 levels
89,394,935
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Iran (Islamic Republic of) by province, state and territory

32 first-level units and 432 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 32 first-level units of Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
32 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
432 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM3
1,064 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
ADM4
2,772 fourth-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
03Units

All 32 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

Unit కోడ్ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Alborz IR-09 3,788,130 3,442,205 5,234 724 4.2% 0
Ardabil IR-03 1,499,861 1,190,053 17,870 84 1.7% 0
Bushehr IR-06 1,082,159 1,299,665 22,925 47 1.2% 267,463
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari IR-08 1,042,793 1,114,178 16,309 64 1.2% 0
East Azerbaijan IR-01 3,394,449 4,322,384 47,536 71 3.8% 0
Fars IR-14 9,273,779 5,333,732 122,707 76 10.4% 0
Gilan IR-19 2,171,449 2,477,953 14,058 154 2.4% 341,815
Golestan IR-27 1,689,121 2,057,558 19,931 85 1.9% 41,199
Hamadan IR-24 2,285,895 1,499,046 19,357 118 2.6% 0
Hormozgan IR-23 1,431,728 1,861,736 70,853 20 1.6% 219,878
Ilam IR-05 449,363 628,580 19,580 23 0.5% 0
Isfahan IR-04 5,106,436 5,755,521 107,221 48 5.7% 0
Kerman IR-15 4,616,218 3,310,389 179,426 26 5.2% 0
Kermanshah IR-17 1,750,263 1,808,239 24,953 70 2% 0
Khuzestan IR-10 5,510,105 6,682,549 63,376 87 6.2% 708,703
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad IR-18 706,781 830,830 15,386 46 0.8% 0
Kurdistan IR-16 1,328,824 1,823,644 29,050 46 1.5% 0
Lorestan IR-20 1,851,300 1,603,347 28,261 66 2.1% 0
Markazi IR-22 1,746,721 1,311,452 29,072 60 2% 0
Mazandaran IR-21 3,001,289 3,682,799 23,747 126 3.4% 257,781
Mazandaran IR-21 38,526 48,319 230 168 0% 2,990
North Khorasan IR-31 829,385 735,891 28,168 29 0.9% 0
Qazvin IR-28 1,125,345 1,475,670 15,552 72 1.3% 0
Qom IR-26 1,191,461 1,635,950 11,498 104 1.3% 0
Razavi Khorasan IR-30 10,212,798 7,561,112 117,851 87 11.4% 0
Semnan IR-12 740,115 884,522 97,216 8 0.8% 0
Sistan and Baluchestan IR-13 2,454,421 3,169,688 178,336 14 2.7% 40,267
South Khorasan IR-29 662,743 847,360 149,458 4 0.7% 0
Tehran – 13,136,297 16,260,247 13,615 965 14.7% 0
West Azerbaijan IR-02 3,298,825 3,678,350 39,750 83 3.7% 0
Yazd IR-25 1,029,071 1,429,017 73,840 14 1.2% 0
Zanjan IR-11 949,284 1,117,101 21,746 44 1.1% 0
04ప్రమాదం

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Iran (Islamic Republic of) publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen IRN ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen IRN ADM2, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen IRN ADM3, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM4 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen IRN ADM4, source: Open Street Map, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2021. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
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Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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