Fars

Fars is one of the 28 provinces of Iran. It is in the south of the country. Its center is Shiraz, Iran.

Roughly, Fars is the original homeland of the Persian people. The native name of the Persian language is Farsi or Parsi. Persia and Persian both derive from the Hellenized form Persis of the root word Pars. Fars is arabicized version of Pars. The Old Persian word was Pârsâ.

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Provinces of Iran
Ardabil \| Bushehr \| Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari \| East Azarbaijan \| Esfahan \| Fars \| Guilan \| Golestan \| Hamadan \| Hormozgan \| Ilam \| Kerman \| Kermanshah \| Khorasan \| Khuzestan \| Kohkiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad \| Kurdistan \| Lorestan \| Markazi \| Mazandaran \| Qazvin \| Qom \| Semnan \| Sistan and Baluchistan \| Tehran \| West Azarbaijan \| Yazd \| Zanjan


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