Kuhrang County ( fa, شهرستان کوهرنگ) is located in
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 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
Chelgerd. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 33,468, in 5,980 households.
[ Retrieved 10 November 2022] The following census in 2011 counted 35,915 people, in 7,702 households.
At the 2016 census, the county's population was 41,535, in 10,859 households.
Kuhrang County has many tourist attractions based on its environmental diversity, such as Kuhrang Spring, ice caves, Sheikh Ali Khan waterfall, and Dimeh Spring. The people of this county are
Bakhtiari and speak Lorish.
The county is the site three dams and tunnels transferring water from the
Kuhrang River to the
Zayandeh River
Zayanderud ( fa, Zāyanderud, script=Latn, from "fertile" or "life giver", and "river"), also spelled as ''Zayandeh-Rood'' or ''Zayanderood'', is the largest river of the Iranian Plateau in central Iran.
Geography
The Zayandeh starts in t ...
:
Kouhrang 1,
Kouhrang 2, and
Kouhrang 3
Administrative divisions
References
Counties of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province
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