Analysis of the Urban Hierarchy of Kermanshah Province (1965 - 2006)

Some of the objectives of the organization are planning, designing, finding patterns and distribution of elements in order to understand the physical and cultural connections between different topics of interest. The purpose of this study was to determine the levels of the urban hierarchy in the Kermanshah Province Using different models including nearest neighbor analysis", "Zipf's rank-size", and "early indicators", and urban hierarchy levels. In this regard, based on the sixth Population and Housing Census (1965 – 2006)the distribution pattern of urban settlements and urban navigation system, as well as, the first capital city of the region has been studied. The results indicate that the distribution of cities is almost regular monotony. Differences in Kermanshah province with a large population and the urban system of the city is based on the first model. Thus the rank - size rule does.