Chabahar County
{{Short description|County in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran}}
{{for multi|the city|Chabahar|other places with a similar name|Chah Bahar (disambiguation){{!}}Chah Bahar}}
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Chabahar County ({{langx|fa|شهرستان چابهار}}){{efn|Formerly Chah Bahar County (شهرستان چاه بهار)}} is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the port city of Chabahar{{cite report|title=Approval of the organization and chain of citizenship of the elements and units of the national divisions of Sistan and Baluchestan province, centered in the city of Zahedan|language=fa|website=rc.majlis.ir|via=Research Center of the System of Laws of the Islamic Council of the Farabi Library of Mobile Users|url=https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/113038|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724212413/https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/113038|archive-date=24 July 2013|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Defense Political Commission of the Government Board|last=Habibi|first=Hassan|date=5 March 2013|orig-date=Approved 21 June 1369|id=Proposal 3233.1.5.53; Letter 907-93808; Notification 82822/T129|access-date=29 December 2023}}{{efn|name=fn2|Formerly Chah Bahar}} on the coast of the Gulf of Oman.
History
After the 2011 National Census, Talang Rural District was separated from the county to join Qasr-e Qand County.{{cite news|title=National divisions with the approval of the Government Board: The map of national divisions was changed in some counties|language=fa|website=tasnimnews.com|via=Tasnim News Agency|url=http://www.tasnimnews.com/Home/Single/9366|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221141333/http://www.tasnimnews.com/Home/Single/9366|last=Rahimi|first=Mohammadreza|archive-date=21 February 2014|publisher=Cabinet of Ministers|access-date=8 April 2023}} After the 2016 census, the village of Polan was elevated to the status of a city.{{cite web|title=The decision of the Ministry of the Interior regarding the transformation of Polan village in the center of Polan District of Chabahar County into a city was announced|language=fa|website=dotic.ir|via=Laws and Regulations Portal of Iran|url=https://dotic.ir/news/1656|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408145337/https://dotic.ir/news/1656|last=Fazli|first=Abdolreza Rahmani|archive-date=8 April 2023|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Council of Ministers|date=19 April 2023|orig-date=Approved 17 December 1389|id=Letter 33667/59806|access-date=8 April 2023}}
In 2018, Dashtiari District was separated from the county in the establishment of Dashtiari County.{{cite report|title=Letter of approval regarding the national divisions of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan province|language=fa|website=qavanin.ir|via=Laws and Regulations Portal of the Islamic Republic of Iran|url=https://qavanin.ir/Law/PrintText/267030|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407224635/https://qavanin.ir/Law/PrintText/267030|last=Jahangiri|first=Ishaq|archive-date=7 April 2023|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Council of Ministers|date=c. 2023|orig-date=Approved 13 September 1398|id=Proposal 20047|access-date=7 April 2023}} Vashnam-e Dari Rural District was created in the Central District, and Pir Sohrab Rural District was separated from it in the formation of Pir Sohrab District, including the new Bajar Bazar Rural District.{{cite report|title=Approval regarding the national divisions in the counties of Dashtiari, Chabahar and Konarak in Sistan and Baluchestan province|language=fa|website=sdil.ac.ir|via=Shahr Danesh Legal Research Institute|url=https://sdil.ac.ir/مصوبات-هیأت-دولت-دهه-سوم-تیر-1400/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924232233/https://sdil.ac.ir/مصوبات-هیأت-دولت-دهه-سوم-تیر-1400/|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Cabinet of Ministers|last=Jahangiri|first=Ishaq|archive-date=24 September 2021|date=12 September 2021|orig-date=Approved 13 April 1400|id=Proposal 160986; Notification 40833/T58355AH|access-date=1 February 2025}}
Demographics
=Language and ethnicity=
The aboriginal residents in the city of Chabahar are the Baluchis. In recent years, many people have immigrated to Chabahar from other parts of Iran to find a better life. Immigration changed Chabahar's face dramatically. Today Chabahar has a mix of different ethnicities including Baluchs, Turks, Sistanis (Zabolis), and other peoples of Iran.{{cn|date=December 2021}}
=Population=
As of 2008, more than half of the county's population were living in rural areas; the urban population is 77,128, of which a majority reside in the city of Chabahar.Sistan and Baluchistan annual population statistics 2008:{{cite web|url=http://www.sb-ostan.ir/DesktopModules/OrgAmar/OrgAmar_813_64.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-07-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722015628/http://www.sb-ostan.ir/DesktopModules/OrgAmar/OrgAmar_813_64.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-22 }} At the time of the 2006 census, the county's population was 214,017 in 41,532 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): Sistan and Baluchestan Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/11.xls|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920083538/http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/11.xls|format=Excel|archive-date=20 September 2011}} The following census in 2011 counted 264,051 people in 58,039 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): Sistan and Baluchestan Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=irandataportal.syr.edu|via=Iran Data Portal, Syracuse University|url=https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Sistan-and-Baluchestan.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125114706/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Sistan-and-Baluchestan.xls|archive-date=25 November 2022|access-date=19 December 2022|format=Excel}} The 2016 census measured the population of the county as 283,204 in 68,147 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Sistan and Baluchestan Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_11.xlsx|access-date=19 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211223104011/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_11.xlsx|format=Excel|archive-date=23 December 2021}}
=Administrative divisions=
Chabahar County's population history and administrative structure over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table.
| class="wikitable"
|+ Chabahar County Population | |||
| Administrative Divisions | 2006 | 2011 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central District | style="text-align: right;"| 113,154 | style="text-align: right;"| 143,067 | style="text-align: right;"| 170,272 |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Kambel-e Soleyman RD | style="text-align: right;"| 21,803 | style="text-align: right;"| 33,482 | style="text-align: right;"| 38,268 |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Pir Sohrab RD | style="text-align: right;"| 20,281 | style="text-align: right;"| 23,952 | style="text-align: right;"| 25,265 |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Vashnam-e Dari RD{{efn|name=fn1|Established after the 2016 census}} | style="text-align: right;"| | style="text-align: right;"| | style="text-align: right;"| |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Chabahar (city){{efn|name=fn2}} | style="text-align: right;"| 71,070 | style="text-align: right;"| 85,633 | style="text-align: right;"| 106,739 |
| Dashtiari District{{efn|Transferred to Dashtiari County after the 2016 census}} | style="text-align: right;"| 57,813 | style="text-align: right;"| 72,743 | style="text-align: right;"| 79,911 |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Bahu Kalat RD | style="text-align: right;"| 24,478 | style="text-align: right;"| 30,646 | style="text-align: right;"| 34,748 |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Negur RD | style="text-align: right;"| 17,425 | style="text-align: right;"| 19,831 | style="text-align: right;"| 21,092 |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Sand-e Mir Suiyan RD | style="text-align: right;"| 12,151 | style="text-align: right;"| 17,654 | style="text-align: right;"| 18,401 |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Negur (city) | style="text-align: right;"| 3,759 | style="text-align: right;"| 4,612 | style="text-align: right;"| 5,670 |
| Pir Sohrab District{{efn|name=fn1}} | style="text-align: right;"| | style="text-align: right;"| | style="text-align: right;"| |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Bajar Bazar RD{{efn|name=fn1}} | style="text-align: right;"| | style="text-align: right;"| | style="text-align: right;"| |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Pir Sohrab RD | style="text-align: right;"| | style="text-align: right;"| | style="text-align: right;"| |
| Polan District | style="text-align: right;"| 43,050 | style="text-align: right;"| 48,241 | style="text-align: right;"| 33,004 |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Polan RD | style="text-align: right;"| 28,799 | style="text-align: right;"| 31,767 | style="text-align: right;"| 33,004 |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Talang RD{{efn|Transferred to Qasr-e Qand County}} | style="text-align: right;"| 14,251 | style="text-align: right;"| 16,474 | style="text-align: right;"| |
| style="padding-left: 1em;" | Polan (city){{efn|Became a city after the 2016 census}} | style="text-align: right;"| | style="text-align: right;"| | style="text-align: right;"| |
| Total | style="text-align: right;"| 214,017 | style="text-align: right;"| 264,051 | style="text-align: right;"| 283,204 |
| colspan=4 | {{small|RD {{=}} Rural District}} |
Economy
Traditionally, the people of Chabahar County were employed in fishing and agriculture, with some coastal trade. In the 1970s Iran established a naval station and an air base there. In the 1980s the port facilities at Chabahar were developed during the Iran–Iraq War, and further developed in the 1990s.{{Cite book|author=Iraj, Afshar Sistani |year=1993 |title=چابهار و دریای پارس|trans-title=Chabahar and the Persian Gulf (Pars Sea) |language=fa|location=Zahedan, Iran |publisher=Sediqi |pages=356–361}}{{Cite news|title=Official underlines importance of Chabahar port for India|date=19 September 2014|newspaper=Fars News Agency |url=http://theiranproject.com/blog/2014/09/19/official-underlines-importance-of-chabahar-port-for-india-2/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140926045714/http://theiranproject.com/blog/2014/09/19/official-underlines-importance-of-chabahar-port-for-india-2/ |archive-date=26 September 2014 |url-status=live}} The Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone was established in 1992. These developments changed the county from primarily rural, to an urban–rural mix.{{cn|date=June 2020}}
Chabahar County is the site of Iran's ballistic missile test range.{{Cite news|title=Iran tested missile, breaching U.N. council resolutions: officials |date=8 December 2015 |newspaper=Reuters News Service|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-missiles-idUSKBN0TQ2O220151208?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202#blB8bPKiBl4wZI1w.97 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208151950/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-missiles-idUSKBN0TQ2O220151208?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |url-status=live}}
Tourism
Although some opportunities exist in Chabahar County for tourists, such as the village of Tis,{{Cite book |author1=Penad, Abdolsamad |author2=Fazeli, Mostafa |year=2012 |chapter=گردشگري روستایی راهبردي اساسی براي توسعه روستایی مورد: روستاي تیس(ناحیه چابهار) [Rural Tourism, Fundamental Strategy for Rural Development in Tis village] |trans-title=Proceedings of the First National Conference on the Makran coastal development and maritime authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran 28 to 30 February 1391 |title=مجموعه مقالات اولین همایش ملی توسعه سواحل مکران و اقتدار دریایی جمهوری اسلامی ایران ۲۸ الی ۳۰ بهمن ماه ۱۳۹۱ |location=Chabahar |publisher=Department of Maritime and Marine Science, University of Chabahar |language=fa |url=http://www.roshd.ir/padafand/makran/1090.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126063622/http://www.roshd.ir/padafand/makran/1090.pdf |archive-date=26 November 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=8 December 2015 }}{{Cite web|title=قبرستان جنها در روستای تیس |trans-title=Jinn cemetery in the village of Tis |date=6 December 2014 |publisher=Nafee |language=fa |url=http://nafee.ir/content/11404/%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AC%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324071858/http://nafee.ir/content/11404/%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AC%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B3 |archive-date=24 March 2015 |url-status=live}} folk festivals,{{Cite news|title=آغاز به کار جشنواره تابستانی مونسون در منطقه آزاد چابهار |trans-title=Summer Monsoon festival begins in Chabahar |date=31 August 2015 |language=fa |url=http://www.cfzo.ir/fa/component/k2/item/39-manager |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208192638/http://www.cfzo.ir/fa/component/k2/item/39-manager |archive-date=8 December 2015 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news|title=جشنواره بومی محلی در روستای تیس شهرستان چابهار برگزار می شود |trans-title=Local Indigenous Festival held in the village of Tis, Chabahar |date=30 September 2015 |language=fa |url=http://dana.ir/News/467086.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210183508/http://dana.ir/News/467086.html |archive-date=10 December 2015 |url-status=live }} and unusual landforms,{{Cite journal|author1=Roudi, Ahrari |author2=Khargerdi, Shahrokhi |year=2008 |title=Geotourism in Chabahar |language=fa|journal=Geosciences |volume=17 |issue=67 |pages=46–53 |url=http://www.sid.ir/fa/VEWSSID/J_pdf/55413876705.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229030736/http://www.sid.ir/fa/VEWSSID/J_pdf/55413876705.pdf |archive-date=29 December 2013 |url-status=live}} tourism is undeveloped in the county.{{cn|date=November 2019}}
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