Shahdad is a city in and the capital of Shahdad District

Shahdad District

Shahdad District is a district in Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 15,333, in 3,742 families. The District has two cities: Shahdad and Anduhjerd....

, in Kerman County

Kerman County

Kerman County is a county in Kerman Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Kerman. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 654,052, in 166,740 families. The county is subdivided into six districts : the Central District, Mahan District, Shahdad District, Golbaf District, Rayen...

, Kerman 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...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 4,097, in 1,010 families.

Shahdad is the centre of Shahdad district which includes smaller cities and villages such as Sirch, Anduhjerd

Anduhjerd

Anduhjerd is a city in Shahdad District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,853, in 703 families....

, Chehar Farsakh, Go-diz, Keshit, Ibrahim Abad, Joshan and Dehseif.

The driving distance from Kerman

Kerman

- Geological characteristics :For the Iranian paleontologists, Kerman has always been considered a fossil paradise. Finding new dinosaur footprints in 2005 has now revealed new hopes for paleontologists to better understand the history of this area.- Economy :...

 city to Shahdad is 95 km. Shahdad is located at the edge of the Lut

Dasht-e Lut

Dasht-e Lut, also spelled Dasht-i-Lut, is a large salt desert in southeastern Iran and is the world's 25th largest desert.Iran is climatically part of the Afro-Asian belt of deserts that stretch from the Cape Verde islands off West Africa all the way to Mongolia near Beijing, China...

 desert. The local climate is hot and dry. The main agricultural produce is date

Date Palm

The date palm is a palm in the genus Phoenix, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit. Although its place of origin is unknown because of long cultivation, it probably originated from lands around the Persian Gulf. It is a medium-sized plant, 15–25 m tall, growing singly or forming a clump with...

 fruits.

There are many castles

Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...

 and caravanserais

Caravanserai

A caravanserai, or khan, also known as caravansary, caravansera, or caravansara in English was a roadside inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey...

 at Shahdad and around. Examples are the Shafee Abaad castle and the Godeez castle. North of town the Aratta

Aratta

Aratta is a land that appears in Sumerian myths surrounding Enmerkar and Lugalbanda, two early and possibly mythical kings of Uruk also mentioned on the Sumerian king list.-Role in Sumerian literature:Aratta is described as follows in Sumerian literature:...

 civilization village

Jiroft civilization

A "Jiroft culture" has been postulated as an early Bronze Age archaeological culture, located in what is now Iran's Sistan and Kermān Provinces....

 and dwarf humans are said to have existed since 6,000 BC. Sharain of emam Zadeh Zeyd, south of town, is the most respected religious site of Shahdad.

The oldest metal flag in human history was found in this city.