Editing Regions of Iran (section)

==Historical regions==
{{See also|Category:Historical regions of Iran}}
[[File:Iran1934.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Map of provinces of Iran, 1937–1960]]
In 1937 the territory of Iran was divided into ten administrative regions: {{interlanguage link|Region 1 (Iran)|fa|استان_یکم|lt=Region 1}}, {{interlanguage link|Region 2 (Iran)|fa|استان دوم|lt=Region 2}}, {{interlanguage link|Region 10 (Iran)|fa|استان_دهم|lt=Region 10}}, etc.<sup>({{ill|پیشینه تقسیمات کشوری ایران|fa|vertical-align=sup}})</sup> For example, {{interlanguage link|Region 7 (Iran)|fa|استان هفتم|lt=Region 7}} or "Seventh Province" corresponded to present-day [[Fars province]] per the "Territorial Subdivision Act of 1316 [[Solar Hijri calendar|Š.]]/1937 (Qānūn-e taqsīmāt-e kešvar)."<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia= [[Encyclopædia Iranica]] |title=Fars: Population |url= http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fars-vi |accessdate= 10 February 2017 }}</ref>

Histories, travel books and economic analyses often refer to less formal, more historical or geographical, Iranian regions.  The borders of these are not fixed and often have changed over time, and even overlapped at the same time.
* [[Alamut]] – in the [[Alborz|Alborz mountain range]] of northern Iran;
* [[Central Iran]]: Known as ''Iraq-i Ajam (''[[Persian Iraq]])
* [[Baluchistan]] (Southeastern Iran) – sometimes just [[Sistan and Baluchestan province]] and sometimes all of Baluchistan;
* [[Caspian Iran]] (Northern Iran, [[Tabaristan]] or "Mardi and Hyrcania"<ref name="Ramirez-Faria">{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Iran|editor=Ramirez-Faria, Carlos|year=2007|encyclopedia=Concise Encyclopedia of World History|publisher=Atlantic Publishers|location=New Delhi|pages=351&ndash;355, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gGKsS-9h4BYC&pg=PA354 page 354]|isbn=978-81-269-0775-5}}</ref>) – [[Gilan province]], [[Mazandaran province]], and [[Golestan province]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Iran Travel Guide|publisher=Tiki Travel (FB Editions)|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=GD5Ou2PJkZsC&pg=PT11 11]}}</ref> and historically sometimes northern [[Semnan province|Semnan]]
* [[Eastern Iran]]
* [[Iranian Azerbaijan]] – approximately the current provinces of Region 3, but often excluding [[Kurdistan province]] and often excluding the Caspian province of [[Gilan province|Gilan]];<ref>{{Cite book|author=Minahan, James|year=1998|title=Miniature Empires: A Historical Dictionary of the Newly Independent States|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Connecticut|page=24|isbn=978-0-313-30610-5}}</ref>
* [[Iranian Kurdistan]] –  including [[Kurdistan province]], [[Kermanshah province]] and parts of [[Ilam province]] and parts of [[West Azerbaijan province]];
* [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]] – consisting of [[North Khorasan province]], [[Razavi Khorasan province]], [[South Khorasan province]], and sometimes eastern [[Semnan province]]
** [[Quhistan]] – southern Khorasan;<ref>{{Cite book|author=Bosworth, C. Edmund |chapter=The Ismaʻilis of Quhistan and the Maliks of Nimruz or Sistan|editor=Daftary, Farhad |title=Mediaeval Ismaʻili History and Thought|date=9 May 1996 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=New York|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=8eebGQXgPcQC&pg=PA221 221]|isbn=978-0-521-45140-6}}</ref>
* [[Southern Iran]] (also known as the Persian Gulf region of Iran) – [[Fars province|Fars]], [[Kohgiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad Province|Kohgiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad]], [[Hormozgan]] and [[Bushehr province|Bushehr]] provinces;
* Southeastern Iran ([[Carmania (satrapy)|Carmania]])<ref name="Ramirez-Faria" /> – mostly [[Kerman province]], but often extending to the coast;
* [[Western Iran]] ([[Khuzestan]], [[Elam]]) – the 'birthplace of Iran', similar to Region 4 ([[Hamadan province]], [[Ilam province]], [[Kermanshah province]], [[Khuzestan province]], [[Lorestan province]], [[Markazi province]]), but often including all of or some of [[Qazvin province]], [[Kurdistan province]], [[Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province]] and [[Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Map of Iran (Regions)|publisher=World of Maps (Weltkarte.com)|url=http://www.worldofmaps.net/en/middle-east/map-iran/map-regions-iran.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726210140/http://www.worldofmaps.net/en/middle-east/map-iran/map-regions-iran.htm|archivedate=26 July 2014|url-status=live|access-date=25 June 2014}}</ref>