Chabahar County ( fa, شهرستان چابهار) (formerly Chah Bahar County ( fa, شهرستان چاه بهار) is located in Sistan and Baluchestan 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 ...

. The capital of the county is Chabahar. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions of the county later split off to form

Dashtiari County Dashtiari County ( fa, شهرستان دشتیاری) is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Negur. At the 2006 census, the region's population (as Dashtiari District of Chabahar County Chab ...

and

Qasr-e Qand County Qasr-e Qand County ( fa, شهرستان قصرقند) is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Qasr-e Qand. At the 2006 census, the county's population (as Qasr-e Qand District of Nik Shahr Count ...

) was 214,017, in 41,532 households. Retrieved 24 October 2022 At the 2016 census, the county's population was 283,204, in 68,147 households.

Administrative divisions

Population

As of 2008, more than half of the population were 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 Chabahar has a mix of different ethnicities including Baluchs,

Turks Turk or Turks may refer to: Communities and ethnic groups * Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages * Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation * Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic ...

, Sistanis (

Zaboli Mehrestan ( fa, مهرستان, also Romanized as Zābolī; also known as Qal‘eh-ye Zābolī – "Fort Zaboli"; formerly, Magas) is a city in and the capital of Mehrestan County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Iran, off ...

s), and other peoples of Iran.

Economy

Traditionally, the people of Chabahar County were employed in fishing and agriculture, with some coastal trade. In the 1970s Iran established a naval station and an air base there. In the 1980s the port facilities at Chabahar were developed during the

Iran–Iraq War The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council ...

, and further developed in the 1990s. The

Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone Chabahar Free Trade–Industrial Zone (CFZ) ( fa, منطقه آزاد تجاری-صنعتی چابهار ) is an Iranian free trade zone formed according to the law on the establishment and administration of free trade–industrial zones . Ch ...

was established in 1992. These developments changed the county from primarily rural, to an urban–rural mix. Chabahar County is the site of Iran's ballistic missile test range.

Tourism

Although some opportunities exist in Chabahar County for tourists, such as the village of

Tis TIS, Tis or Tis may refer to: Organisations * Taporoporo'anga Ipukarea Society, an environmental NGO based in the Cook Islands * TransInvestService (TIS), is a large Ukrainian private terminal operator and stevedore operating in the Port of Yuzhn ...

, folk festivals, and unusual landforms, tourism is undeveloped in Chabahar County.

References

{{Chabahar County, state=collapsed Counties of Sistan and Baluchestan Province