Basht County ( fa, شهرستان باشت) is in
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad 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
Basht. At the 2006 census, the region's population (as Basht District of
Gachsaran County
Gachsaran County ( fa, شهرستان گچساران, ) is located in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Iran. The capital of the county is Dogonbadan. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions of the county later ...
) was 22,170 in 4,309 households.
The following census in 2011 counted 20,699 people in 5,022 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county to form Basht County.
At the 2016 census, the county's population was 21,690 in 5,781 households.
Administrative divisions
The population history and structural changes of Basht County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table. The latest census shows two districts, four rural districts, and one city.
References
Counties of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province
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