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d as Sūmār, Soormar, and Sowmār) is a city and capital of
Sumar District
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Qasr-e Shirin County
Qasr-e Shirin County ( fa, شهرستان قصر شیرین) is in Kermanshah province, Kermanshah province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Qasr-e Shirin.Kermanshah 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 ...
. At the 2006 census, its population was 20, in 15 families, making it Iran's least populous settlement with city status. The village is populated by
Kurds ug:كۇردلار
Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...
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Border market
Sumar border market was inaugurated as the ninth border market on the Iranian side of Iran-Iraq border on 5 April
2015
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.The border market, in which more than 100 billion rials has been invested, was officially inaugurated during a ceremony attended by the governors of Kermanshah and the Iraqi province of Dialeh. It is located in the Sumar-Mandali border region. As its first commercial activity, the 40-hectare border market's primary aim was to export 200 tons of
cement
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to Iraq. Currently, Parvizkhan border market near the city of Qasr-e Shirin is the major export channel through which 52% of the Iranian goods are exported to Iraq.
See also
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Soumar (missile)
The Soumar (Persian: سومار) is an Iranian long-range cruise missile. The missile was named in the honour of a village called Soumar, whose inhabitants were all killed when Saddam Hussein’s regime attacked the village with chemical weapon ...
, is named after this city.
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Naft shahr
Naft Shahr ( ku, نەفتشار, fa, نفت شهر; also known as Naft Shah, Naft Shāh, Naft-e Shah, Naft-e Shāh, Naft-i-Shah, Naft-ī-Shah) is a district of Qasr-e Shirin County, in Kermanshah Province of Iran. It is a sub-district of Sumar Di ...
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Eyvan County
Eyvan County, alternately spelled Eywan or Aivan ( fa, شهرستان ایوان, ''Shahrestān-e Eyvan'') is located in Ilam province, Iran. The capital of the county is Eyvan. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 47,380, in 10,040 ...
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Ghalajeh tunnel Ghalajeh tunnel (Persian: تونل قلاجه) or Arba'een tunnel is a tunnel half of which is located in Eyvan County in Ilam Province and the other half in Gwawar District of Gilan-e Gharb County in Kermanshah Province of Iran
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Gilan-e Gharb County
Gilan-e Gharb County ( fa, شهرستان گیلان غرب); Gellan ( ku, گێڵان and گیەڵان) is located in Kermanshah province, Iran. The capital of the county is Gilan-e Gharb
Gilan-e Gharb (Kurdish: Gyellan گیەڵان) ( fa, گ ...