Place:Kermānshāhan, Iran

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NameKermānshāhan
Alt namesBakhtarānsource: Middle East, National Geographic (1991) map supplement; Rand McNally Atlas (1989) I-13
Bakhtarān provincesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Kermanshah Provincesource: Wikipedia
Kermānshāhānsource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 54
Ostān-e Bākhtarānsource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
TypeProvince
Coordinates34.5°N 47.0°E
Located inIran
Contained Places
Deserted settlement
Ganj Dareh
Inhabited place
Bīsitūn
Eslāmābād-e Gharb
Gīlān-e Gharb
Harsīn
Kangāvar
Kerend
Qaṣr-e Shīrīn
Ravānsar
Sar-e Pol-e ̄Zahāb
Sonqor
Sūmār
Ţāq-e Bustān
Ṣaḥneh
Province
Kermanshah ( 300 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Kermanshah Province 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'. According to a 2014 segmentation by the Ministry of Interior it is center of Region 4, with the region's central secretariat located at the province's capital city, Kermanshah. A majority of people in Kermanshah Province are Shia, and there are Sunni and Yarsani minority groups. Kermānshāhan is a province.

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