Global Sourcebook for International Data Management
by Graham Rhind
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Iran
Global Sourcebook | Index | Properties
| IRAN |
For supplementary information, see links to post office home pages here , to postal code pages here
and to other personal name and addressing issues pages here
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| Table of Contents |
Iran - Country information
Local short name form
Official name
Area
Population
84 038 000 (2020 projection) [1]
Capital
Currency
International telephone access code
ISO 3166 country codes
Car nationality plate code
Internet country code
GRC Country Code
Iran - Number format
Note: This section last updated 14th March 2021
1,234/45
(where / indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)
۱٫۲۳۴٬۴۵
(where ٬ indicates the decimal separator and ٫ the thousands separator)
Iran - Date and time formats
Iran - Languages
There are 68 languages spoken in Iran. The main ones are Mesopotamian Arabic (1 200 000 speakers); South Azerbaijani
(13 000 000 speakers) (also called Turkic); Western Farsi
, the national language (25 300 000 speakers); Gilaki
(3 265 000 speakers); Kurdish
(3 250 000 speakers); Luri
(4 280 000 speakers); Mazanderani
(3 265 000 speakers) and Turkmen
(1 000 000 speakers).
The use of Kurdish is highly discouraged by the Iranian authorities.
Iran - Personal names
Personal names are formatted in the order
given name+surname
Names may be preceded by professional titles (e.g. “Engineer”) or religious titles.
Women do not take their husband’s name upon marriage. Children typically take their father’s surname.
-zadeh, -pur, -poor, -pour and -i can mean "son of", and -tabar, -nezhad and -nejad mean "descendant of".
Tables of names can be acquired: given names, surnames/family names
Iran - Company legal forms
Iranian company types include:
شرکت , کمپانی. (Sherkat) - company شرکت با مسئولیت محدود(Sherkat ba Masouliyat Mahdoud) - limited company شرکت مختلط غیر سهامی(Sherkat Mokhtalet Gheyr Sahami) - limited partnership شرکت مختلط سهامی(Sherkat Mokhtalet Sahami) - mixed joint-stock partnership شرکت نسبی(Sherkat Nesbi) - proportional liability partnership شرکت سهامی عام(Sherkat Sahami Am) - public limited company شرکت سهامی خاص(Sherkat Sahami Khas) - private limited company شرکت تعاونی تولید و مصرف(Sherkat Ta’avoni Tolid va Masraf) - production and consumption cooperative شرکت تضامنی(Sherkat Tazamoni) - general partnership
Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm
Iran - Example address format
Note: This section last updated 24th July 2020
Addresses in Iran are written in a fairly flexible format, both in terms of the placing of the postal code and the order of the address elements. Here are some examples:
A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired
Iran - Postal codes
Note: This section last updated 27th October 2018
Iran has replaced its 5 digit postal code with a ten digit code, intended to give an individual code to individual buildings in the country. The first digit is a forwarding code, the second a zone, the third a district, the fourth a part of the district, the fifth a segment. There are 8565 different five-digit zones. The final four digits are an identification code. The code cannot commence with a 0 or a 2 because of the resemblance of these numbers to other numbers in Persian writing.
Postal codes of post office boxes are five digits (the last one being 5) followed by a hyphen then the number of the box. Five-digit codes ending in 1 are for the "rural zones" of cities and for small towns and villages. Other codes, for larger cities, end in a digit between 6 and 9.
Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired
Iran - Postal code format graphic
Iran - Postal code format
Iran - Postal code specifics
Iran - Postal code regular expression
\A([1|3-9][1-9][1-9][1-9][1|6-9][1-9][1-9][1-9][1-9][1-9])|([1|3-9][1-9][1-9][1-9][5][-]\d{1-3})\Z
Iran - Postal code level of coverage
Iran - Postal code map
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Place names in Iran
Note: This section last updated 20th November 2015
Refer to Exonyms in Iran for full lists of place names in Iran in other languages.
Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http:www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm
Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm
Iran - Administrative districts
Note: This section last updated 19th March 2011
Iran has 31 provinces (ostanha, singular - ostan). These are:
Alborz
Ardabīl
Āzarbāyjān-e Gharbī
Āzarbāyjān-e Sharqī
Būshehr
Chahār Mahāll va Bakhtīārī
Eşfahān
Fārs
Gīlān
Golestān
Hamadān
Hormozgān
Īlām
Kermān
Kermānshahān
Khorāsān-e-Janūbī
Khorāsān-e-Razavī
Khorāsān-e-Shemālī
Khūzestān
Kohkīlūyeh va Būyer Ahmadi
Kordestān
Lorestān
Markazī
Māzandarān
Qazvīn
Qom
Semnān
Sīstān va Balūchestān
Tehrān
Yazd
Zanjān
Administrative districts graphic
Telephone numbers in Iran
Note: This section last updated 25th October 2011
Iranian fixed-line area codes have 3 digits when called from abroad. Mobile numbers have area codes of 3 or 4 digits which commence with 9. Full numbers have between 5 and 10 digits.
Tables of telephone number information/formats can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/telephone.htm
References
- ^ citypopulation.de/en/iran/prov/admin/
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