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findCapitalByProvince

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Look up the capital city of an Iranian province by its Persian name (e.g. "خراسان رضوی" → "مشهد"). Use when displaying capital info next to a province name, or building dropdowns/forms keyed by province. Triggers on mentions of findCapitalByProvince, capital of province, مرکز استان, پایتخت استان.

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findCapitalByProvince — province → capital (Persian)

import { findCapitalByProvince } from "@persian-tools/persian-tools";
// CommonJS
const { findCapitalByProvince } = require("@persian-tools/persian-tools");

Public export

findCapitalByProvince(state: string): string

Behaviour

import { findCapitalByProvince } from "@persian-tools/persian-tools";

findCapitalByProvince("خراسان رضوی");   // "مشهد"
findCapitalByProvince("تهران");          // "تهران"
findCapitalByProvince("اصفهان");         // "اصفهان"
findCapitalByProvince("ندارد");          // throws PersianToolsError

What it does

  1. Normalize the input via toPersianChars(state) — so Arabic-keyboarded ك/ي are tolerated.
  2. Look up in the IRAN_STATES map (src/modules/findCapitalByProvince/states.ts).
  3. If found, return the capital. If not, throw: PersianToolsError("findCapitalByProvince", "no province found").

Return type is string, never undefined. Older docs claim string | undefined — incorrect; the function throws instead. Wrap calls that may receive bad input in a try/catch or pre-validate against the province list.

Common pitfalls

  • Throws on unknown province; doesn't return null/undefined.
  • Input is Persian. Latin transliterations ("Tehran") won't match. No transliteration table.
  • toPersianChars is applied, so Arabic-keyboarded variations like "تهرآن" with combining marks may still fail — normalize ZWNJ and diacritics upstream too if input is user-typed.
  • The dataset is a Map — IRAN_STATES.get(name) exact match after normalization. To pre-filter or autocomplete, iterate Array.from(IRAN_STATES.keys()).

Composition

For coordinate → province → capital chains, use this with findProvinceFromCoordinate:

import { findProvinceFromCoordinate, findCapitalByProvince } from "@persian-tools/persian-tools";

const province = findProvinceFromCoordinate({ longitude: 51.4, latitude: 35.7 });
const capital  = findCapitalByProvince(province.fa);

References

  • Tests: test/findCapitalByProvince.spec.ts
  • Related: findProvinceFromCoordinate skill