Suran, Sistan and Baluchestan
{{Short description|City in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran}}
{{for multi|the administrative divisions|Sib and Suran County|and|Sib and Suran Rural District|other places with the same name|Suran (disambiguation){{!}}Suran}}
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Suran ({{langx|fa|سوران}}){{efn|Also romanized as Sooran and Sūrān; also known as Sūrār{{GEOnet3|-3086447}}}} is a city in the Central District of Sib and Suran County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.{{cite report|title=The approval letter of the Ministers of the Political-Defense Commission of the Government Board regarding some changes and divisions of the country in Sistan and Baluchestan province|language=fa|website=lamtakam.com|via=Lam ta Kam|url=https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/132611|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231230164701/https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/132611|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Political-Defense Commission of the Government Board|last=Davodi|first=Parviz|archive-date=30 December 2023|date=c. 2023|orig-date=Approved 29 July 1386|id=Proposal 93023/42/1/4; Letter 58538/T26118H; Notification 161431/T38028K|access-date=30 December 2023}} It is also the administrative center for Sib and Suran Rural District.{{cite report|title=Creation and formation of 13 rural districts including villages, farms and places mentioned in this approval in Saravan County under Sistan and Baluchestan province=fa|website=qavanin.ir|via=Laws and Regulations Portal of the Islamic Republic of Iran|url=https://qavanin.ir/Law/TreeText/131116|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803115036/https://qavanin.ir/Law/TreeText/131116|last=Mousavi|first=Mirhossein|archive-date=3 August 2022|date=c. 2022|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Cabinet of Ministers|orig-date=Approved 2 February 1366|id=Proposal 53/1/1/11474|access-date=30 December 2023}}
Demographics
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At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 9,966 in 1,886 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 Sib and Suran District of Saravan 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 10,632 people in 2,463 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}} by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Sib and Suran County. The city and the rural district were transferred to the new Central District, with Suran as the county's capital. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 13,580 people in 3,357 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}}
See also
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Category:Cities in Sistan and Baluchestan province
Category:Populated places in Sib and Suran County
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