Pishin ( fa, پيشين, also

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d as Pīshīn) is a city in and the capital of

Pishin District Pishin ( bal, پشین, ps, پښين, ur, ), IPA: pʂin/pçin, is a district in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. In 1975 it was separated from Quetta District, while in 1994 part of it was split off to form the new district of Killa Ab ...

, in Sarbaz County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province,

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. At the 2006 census, its population was 10,477, in 1,832 families. Pishin has an altitude of 219 metres (721 feet).Location of Pishin - Falling Rain Genomics
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Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

i border, across which is the town of Mand to the east. The Iranian government has set up a customs post to develop border trade between Iran and Pakistan. The overwhelming majority of the city's inhabitants are ethnic Baloch who speak the

Balochi language Balochi or Baluchi () is an Iranian language spoken primarily in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. In addition, there are speakers in Oman, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Turkmenistan, East Africa and in diaspor ...

. It was the site of the 2009 Pishin bombing.

Dam

The largest dam in Sistan and Baluchistan province has been built south of Pishin to provide water for agriculture and human consumption in Pishin and Bahu districts.

References

Cities in Sistan and Baluchestan Province Iran–Pakistan border crossings Populated places in Sarbaz County {{SistanBaluchestan-geo-stub