Bandar Rig ( fa, بندرريگ; also

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d as Bandar Rīg and Bandar-e Rīg; also known simply as Rig) is a city in and capital of Rig District, in

Ganaveh County Ganaveh County ( Luri and fa, شهرستان گناوه) is located in Bushehr province, Iran. The capital of the county is Bandar Ganaveh. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 82,937, in 17,701 households. Retrieved 6 November 2022 ...

, Bushehr 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 5,257, in 1,169 families. According to a 1939 publication of the anthropologist Henry Field, 12,000

Circassians The Circassians (also referred to as Cherkess or Adyghe; Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: ''Adıgəxər'') are an indigenous Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation native to the historical country-region of Circassia ...

lived in Bandar Rig.FIELD, H. (1939). CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF IRAN. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History. Anthropological Series, 29(1), p. 209. from http://www.jstor.org/stable/29782234

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Populated places in Ganaveh County Cities in Bushehr Province {{Ganaveh-geo-stub