Determination and Analysis of the Levels of the Rural Districts of the Province Aanjan, Using the Centrality Index and Preston Models

Investigating and recognising the rural regions and analyzing their abilities and problems in the process of planning the rural development are of a great importance and nowadays being aware of the facilities and problems of ruralregion is considered necessary in rendering plans and programs for development. The determination and analysis of the level of the facilities of the rural regions in different fields using the quantitative methods play on important role in this process. In the present article، using the models of centeral index and Pereston as well as 45 indexs in different fields (economy، social، health and medical and agriculture). We tried to determine and analyse the facility levels of the villages in Zanjan province. Environment facilities، adjacency and being near to the cities، centers and place for development، industrial places and the main fundamental network are very important in the level of the facilities of the rural regions. The results show that considering the level of facilities these villages have considerable difference in each field (economy، social، health and medical and agriculture). The differences were such that 9 out of 46 of these villages were in the privatization level in (economy، social، health and medical and agriculture) and only one village had considerable facilities.