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   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)

   Note: This section last updated 1st May 2021

   yyyy/mm/dd

   14:32

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.

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 , family name prefixes , forms of address , job titles 

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 

   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 

   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 

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Iran - Postal code map

   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 

   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 

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   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.