This is a list of cities in Iran, categorized by province. The census years listed below comes from the Statistical Center of Iran; since the year 2006 the country of Iran has had a census every 5 years. The cities that are bold are capitals of provinces, counties & districts. Iran has 31 provinces and 1245 cities.

Alborz province

Ardabil province

Bushehr province

Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province

East Azerbaijan province

Isfahan province

Fars province

Gilan province

Golestan province

Hamadan province

Hormozgan province

Ilam province

Kerman province

Kermanshah province

Khuzestan province

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province

Kurdistan province

Lorestan province

Markazi province

Mazandaran province

North Khorasan province

Qazvin province

Qom province

Razavi Khorasan province

Semnan province

Sistan and Baluchestan province

South Khorasan province

Tehran province

West Azerbaijan province

Yazd province

Zanjan province

Ancient cities ruins

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