Bampur
Sign in to saveBampur ( and ) is a city in the Central District of Bampur County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bampur
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- fa
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Iran
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Iran
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Sistan and Baluchestan
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bampur
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Central
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2016
- Settlement.population_total
- 12217
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- IRST
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +3:30
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Iran
- Population
- 12217
- Elevation
- 518
- Body of water
- Bampur River
- Capital of
- Bampur County
- Image
- ISS047-E-105068 - View of Earth.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bampur
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- male population
- 5979
- female population
- 6238
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Language and ethnicity
- Population
- Geography
- Archaeology
- See also
- Notes
- References
is a city in the Central District of Bampur County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
==History== The old citadel of Bampur, on a hill about high north of the river, fell into ruins. A new fort called Kalah Nasseri, was built at Pahrah, which is known as Iranshahr, further east, in the 1880s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bampur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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