This article is about the province in Southeast Iran. For the province with a similar name, see Kermanshah province. For the city, see Kerman. For the county, see Kerman County.
1 Ahmad Khatami 2 Aman-Allah Alimoradi 3 Mohammad Bahrami Khoshkar
• Representative of the Supreme Leader
Hasan Alidadi Soleimani
Area
• Total
183,285 km2 (70,767 sq mi)
Elevation
192 m (630 ft)
Population
(2016)[1]
• Total
3,164,718
• Density
17/km2 (45/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+03:30 (IRST)
ISO 3166 code
IR-08
Main language(s)
Persian
HDI (2017)
0.778[2] high · 20th
Website
www.gov.kr.ir
Kerman province (Persian: استان کرمان, Ostān-e Kermān) is the largest of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the southeast of Iran, with its capital in the city of Kerman. In 2014 it was placed in Region 5.[3] Mentioned in ancient times as the Achaemenid satrapy of Carmania,[4] Kerman province has an area of 183,285 km2 (70,767 sq mi), encompassing nearly 11% of the land area of Iran.[5]
At the 2006 census 2006, the population of the province was 2,584,834 in 612,996 households.[6] The 2011 census recorded a population of 2,938,988 people (1,482,339 male and 1,456,649 female) in 785,747 households. Urban areas accounted for 1,684,982 people, whereas 1,242,344 lived in rural vicinities; 6,082 were non-residents.[7] By the 2016 census, the population had increased to 3,164,718 in 932,721 households. The capital city of Kerman, with a population of 537,718, comprises about 29% of the provincial urban population of 1.85 million, being the most developed and largest city of the province.[1]
^ ab"Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016)". AMAR (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 08. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
^"Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
^"همشهری آنلاین-استانهای کشور به ۵ منطقه تقسیم شدند (Provinces were divided into 5 regions)". Hamshahri Online (in Persian). 22 June 2014. Archived from the original on 23 June 2014.
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