Mirjaveh

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

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|settlement_type = City

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|image_caption = The road between Mirjaveh and Taftan in 1969

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|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = Iran

|subdivision_type1 =Province

|subdivision_name1 =Sistan and Baluchestan

|subdivision_type2 =County

|subdivision_name2 =Mirjaveh

|subdivision_type3 =District

|subdivision_name3 =Central

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|population_total = 9359

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|timezone = IRST

|utc_offset = +3:30

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Mirjaveh ({{langx|fa|ميرجاوه}}){{efn|Also romanized as Mīrjāveh; also known as Mīrjāwa{{GEOnet3|-3075135}}}} is a city in the Central District of Mirjaveh County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county{{cite report|title=Resolution on the national divisions in Sistan and Baluchestan province|language=fa|website=rc.majlis.ir|via=Research Center of the Law System of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of the Farabi Library of Mobile Users|url=https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/826692|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130110180806/https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/826692|archive-date=10 January 2013|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Council of Ministers|last=Rahimi|first=Mohammad Reza|date=21 October 2012|orig-date=Approved 29 September 1391|id=Proposal 5676/42/4/1; Notification 200666/T46606H|access-date=8 January 2025}} and the district.

Demographics

=Population=

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 13,590 in 2,350 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 Mirjaveh District of Zahedan County.{{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}} The following census in 2011 counted 10,121 people in 2,135 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 9,359 people in 2,107 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}} by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Mirjaveh County. Mirjaveh was transferred to the new Central District as the county's capital.

Mirjaveh is the main road crossing point between Iran and Pakistan. The Pakistani border post is at Taftan.{{cite web|url=https://www.lonelyplanet.com/iran/transport/getting-there-away/flights|title=Iran flights|first=Lonely|last=Planet|website=Lonely Planet|access-date=14 December 2018}} Mirjaveh is also the point where the railway line from Pakistan crosses the border on the way from Quetta to Zahedan.

Transport

Since construction of the railway line in 1921, the city has been isolated, with no through connection to any other Iranian Railway system. Around 2007, steps were taken to build a link from the rest of the Iranian Railway system via Bam to connect with the Pakistan Railway system. This link is now finished. As the gauges of the Iranian and Pakistan railways are different, being standard gauge and {{Track gauge|5ft6in|lk=on}} broad gauge respectively, a break-of-gauge station and transshipment hub (or transloading hub) were built at Zahedan.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

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References

Category:Populated places in Mirjaveh County

Category:Cities in Sistan and Baluchestan province

Category:Iran–Pakistan border crossings