Abstract
There are numerous Iranian provinces in the border area and Kurdistan is the most important regional settlement in North West border line of Iran country. In recent years many transformations have occurred in Kurdish society and its population and area has changed from 350000 people in 1860 to 1,589,222 persons in the year of 2013. Regional development in case study region has a special status and has different situation in compare with other provinces of Iran. In order to, the aim of this paper is evaluation of regional development in Kurdish border cities of Iran with emphasize on Kurdistan province. Applied methodology in current research is based on the descriptive-analytical approach, then by TOPSIS model were determined the ranking of counties in any of the development sections. Results showed that Sanandaj ranked in first and Sarv Abad ranked in 10 among 23 Kurdistan cities (10 main cities and 13 minor cities as subset cities). Also after the Islamic revaluation of Iran Kurdish cities in numerous sections take an accelerated process to access sustainable regional development. Finally we presented some solve ways. Key words: Regional development, regional inequalities, TOPSIS, Kurdistan, Islamic revolution.
Highlights
In the last few years the Kurdistan Region has benefited from considerable development in many areas
The Kurdistan infrastructure has been damaged by many years of war, genocide and forced displacement at the hand of the previous Iranian regime
The former Iranian regime destroyed over 40 villages in Kurdistan
Summary
In the last few years the Kurdistan Region has benefited from considerable development in many areas. This was the result of the government‟s attempts to seize new opportunities to improve the life of the people of the Region. The Kurdistan infrastructure has been damaged by many years of war, genocide and forced displacement at the hand of the previous Iranian regime. The former Iranian regime destroyed over 40 villages in Kurdistan. Regional development may be domestic or international in nature.
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