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A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
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County
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
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Anar
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Anar ( fa, انار, also
romanize
Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, an ...
d as Anār)
is a city in the
Central District of
Anar County
Anar County ( fa, شهرستان انار) is in Kerman province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Anar. At the 2006 census, the county's population (as Anar District of Rafsanjan County
Rafsanjan County ( fa, شهرست ...
,
Kerman province,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
, and serves as both capital of the county and of the district.
''Anar'' means
pomegranate
The pomegranate (''Punica granatum'') is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae, that grows between tall.
The pomegranate was originally described throughout the Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean re ...
in
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
. The city contains a Sassanian castle named
Anar Castle.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 12,791 in 3,227 households, when it was in the former Anar District of
Rafsanjan County
Rafsanjan County ( fa, شهرستان رفسنجان) is in Kerman province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Rafsanjan. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 291,417, in 71,830 households. The following census in 201 ...
).
The following census in 2011 counted 13,089 people in 3,660 households,
by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Anar County.
The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 15,532 people in 4,660 households.
References
Anar County
Cities in Kerman Province
Populated places in Anar County
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