Fanuj

{{Short description|City in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran}}

{{for|the administrative divisions of Sistan and Baluchestan province|Fanuj County|Fanuj Rural District}}

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Fanuj ({{langx|fa|فنوج}}){{efn|Also romanized as Fannūj and Fanūj; also known as Fānūch and Pannūj{{GEOnet3|-3062628}}}} is a city in the Central District of Fanuj County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is also the administrative center for Fanuj Rural District.{{cite report|title=Approval regarding the definitions and regulations of Iranshahr divisions|language=fa|website=qavanin.ir|via=Laws and Regulations Portal of the Islamic Republic of Iran|url=https://qavanin.ir/Law/TreeText/130770|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711221000/https://qavanin.ir/Law/TreeText/130770|last=Mousavi|first=Mirhossein|archive-date=11 July 2022|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Board of Ministers|date=c. 2022|orig-date=Approved 18 August 1365|id=Proposal 7299/1/5/53|access-date=10 November 2023}}

Fanuj is estimated to sit on 3.6 billion tonnes of titanium reserves. The Fanuj prospect includes a cluster of 30 deposits, each able to yield 1 million tonnes of titanium ore per year.{{cn|date=November 2020}}

Demographics

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At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 9,706 in 2,124 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}} when it was capital of the former Fanuj District of Nik Shahr County.{{cite report|title=Creation and establishment of three districts and one county under the citizenship of Sistan and Baluchestan province as described in the approval letter|language=fa|website=rc.majlis.ir|via=Islamic Council Research Center|url=https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/111745|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221123039/https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/111745|archive-date=21 February 2022|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Political-Defense Commission of the Government Board|last=Habibi|first=Hassan|date=c. 2022|orig-date=Approved 18 November 1368|id=Proposal 10140.1.5.53; Letter 907-93808; Notification 119440/T1005|access-date=31 December 2023}} The following census in 2011 counted 11,577 people in 2,829 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 city as 13,070 people in 3,410 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Fanuj County. The city and the rural district were transferred to the new Central District, with Fanuj as the county's capital.{{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}}

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Category:Cities in Sistan and Baluchestan province

Category:Populated places in Fanuj County

Fanuj

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