Baneh County ( fa, شهرستان بانه) is in

Kurdistan Kurdistan ( ku, کوردستان ,Kurdistan ; lit. "land of the Kurds") or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo-cultural territory in Western Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages ...

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 the city of

Baneh Baneh ( fa, بانه, Bāneh, ku, بانە, translit=Bane) is a city and capital of Baneh County, Kurdistan Province, in Iran's western border. Baneh is bordered by Saqqez to the east, Marivan to the south, Sardasht to the west, and is approxim ...

. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 116,773 in 24,709 households. The following census in 2011 counted 132,565 people in 32,669 households. At the 2016 census, the county's population was 158,690 in 43,772 households.

Administrative divisions

The population history of Baneh County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses is shown in the following table. The latest census shows four districts, eight rural districts, and four cities.

References

Counties of Kurdistan Province {{KurdistanIR-geo-stub