Analysis of distribution of centrifugal and centripetal forces in Kermanshah province

One of the main duties of political geographers is to identify and analysis geographical phenomena that affect political organization. One of the most important of these phenomena is centrifugal and centripetal forces within countries. These forces often led to the disintegration of countries or the political unification of political units. In west of Iran, Kermanshah province can play a key role in this field; because strengthening centrifugal or centripetal activities in which can have a great impact in western Iran and even neighboring provinces. Therefore, the analysis of distribution of the forces in this province has been considered as a research issue of this research.In this research, it has been used library method to collect data. Regarding data analysis, first centripetal and centrifugal forces have been identified based on a conceptual framework composed of the views of Hartshorne and Guttmann, and finally their distribution and intensity has been analyzed by qualitative method (descriptive-analytical and hermeneutic).The results show that along with the centripetal forces in Kermanshah province, factors of ethnic-linguistic, religion and ethnic symbols have theoretically provided the context of activity of centrifugal forces in this province and factors such as political thought and political-military organization has practically formed centrifugal forces in parts of the province.In general, the distribution of centripetal and centrifugal forces in the province is observed in three forms: the western part of the province with relatively high centrifugation, the central and southern regions with moderate centrifugation and the eastern region with relatively low centrifugation.