Ilam Province (Persian: استان ایلام)[a] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Ilam.[15] The province is in the western part of the country in Region 4 and covers 20,164.11 km2 (7,785.41 sq mi). It shares 425 km (264 mi) of the border with Iraq, and also bordering on the provinces of Kermanshah, Lorestan, and Khuzestan.
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the population of Ilam province was 530,464 in 110,515 households.[16] The following census in 2011 counted 557,599 people in 135,499 households.[17] As of the 2016 census, the population of the province was 580,158 people in 159,310 households. Ilam is presently the least populated province in Iran.[7]
^سالنامه آماری کشور سال ۱۳۹۷ [Statistical Yearbook of Iran Year 1397] (in Persian). Tehran, Iran: مرکز آمار ایران. 2019. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
^ abcالسادات حائری, زهرا (2019). سالنامه آماری استان ایلام سال ۱۳۹۷ [Statistical Yearbook of Ilam Province in 1397] (in Persian). Ilam, Iran: سازمان مدیریت و برنامهریزی استان ایلام.
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