Chah Bahar County is a county

Counties of Iran

The provinces of Iran further subdivided into counties called shahrestan , an area inside an ostan, and consists of a city centre, few bakhsh and many villages around them. There are usually a few cities and rural agglomerations in each county. Rural agglomerations are a collection of a number...

 in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. The capital of the county is Chah Bahar. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 214,017, in 41,532 families. The county is subdivided into three districts: the Central District

Central District (Chah Bahar County)

The Central District of Chah Bahar County is a district in Chah Bahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 113,154, in 21,920 families. The District has one city: Chah Bahar....

, Dashtiari District

Dashtiari District

Dashtiari District is a district in Chah Bahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 57,813, in 11,196 families. The District has one city: Negur....

, and Polan District

Polan District

Polan District is a district in Chah Bahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 43,050, in 8,416 families. The District is entirely rural....

. The county has two cities: Chah Bahar and Negur.

Population

As of 2008, more than half of the population are living in rural areas; the urban population is 77,128, of which a majority reside in Chabahar city. 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's Chabahar is a mix of different ethnicities including Baluch

Baluch

Baluch may refer to:*Balochistan region of south and southwest Asia*Baloch people, a people inhabiting the region of Balochistan*Sindhi Baloch, a community of Baloch descent found in the province of Sindh in Pakistan...

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Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

, Sistanis or Zaboli

Zaboli

Zaboli is a city in and the capital of Zaboli County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 7,672, in 1,560 families....

s and other Persian

Persian people

The Persian people are part of the Iranian peoples who speak the modern Persian language and closely akin Iranian dialects and languages. The origin of the ethnic Iranian/Persian peoples are traced to the Ancient Iranian peoples, who were part of the ancient Indo-Iranians and themselves part of...

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