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Kurdistan province is one of 31 provinces of Iran. The province is 28,817 km⁲ in area and its capital is the city of Sanandaj. Kurdistan province is in the west of Iran, in Region 3. It borders the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to the west, and the Iranian provinces of West Azerbaijan to the north, Zanjan to the northeast, Hamadan to the east, and Kermanshah to the south. It exists within both Iranian Kurdistan and Kurdistan.