Isfahan province
Isfahan Province (Persian: استان اصفهان, romanized: Ostān-e Esfahān), also transliterated as Esfahan, Espahan, Isfahan, or Isphahan, is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. The city of Isfahan is the provincial capital. It is located in the center of the country in Iran's Region 2, whose secretariat is located in Isfahan.
Isfahan Province
استان اصفهان | |
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Province | |
Location of Isfahan province within Iran | |
| Coordinates: 32.6577°N 51.6692°E | |
| Country | Iran |
| Region | Region 2 |
| Capital | Isfahan |
| Counties | 29 |
| Government | |
| • Governor-general | Reza Mortazavi |
| • MPs of Assembly of Experts | 1 Abdol Mohammad Abdolahi 2 Morteza Moghtadai 3 Seyed Abolhasan Mahdavi 4 Yousef Tabatabai Nejad |
| • Representative of the Supreme Leader | Yousef Tabatabai Nejad and Saeed Hosseini (Kashan) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 107,018 km2 (41,320 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 5,120,850 |
| • Estimate (2020) | 5,343,000 |
| • Density | 48/km2 (120/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+03:30 (IRST) |
| Main language(s) | Predominantly Persian. small Minority: Bakhtiari Luri, Qashqai, Georgian, Armenian languages in some regions of the province |
| HDI (2017) | 0.830 very high · 3rd |
| Website | www |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 1,703,701 | — |
| 1986 | 3,294,916 | +93.4% |
| 2006 | 4,559,256 | +38.4% |
| 2011 | 4,879,312 | +7.0% |
| 2016 | 5,120,850 | +5.0% |
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At the 2006 National Census, the province's population was 4,499,327 in 1,223,684 households, with a literacy rate of 88.65 percent. The following census in 2011 counted 4,879,312 people in 1,454,162 households. At the most recent census in 2016, the population of the province had risen to 5,120,850 in 1,607,482 households.
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