Baft () is a city in the Central District of

Baft County Baft County () is in Kerman province, Kerman province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Baft. History After the 2006 National Census, Arzuiyeh District and Dehsard Rural District were separated from the county in the establishment of Arzuiy ...

Kerman Kerman (; ) is a city in the Central District (Kerman County), Central District of Kerman County, Kerman province, Kerman province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. History Kerman was founded as a def ...

province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is southwest of

. Baft has an elevation of about .

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 35,008 in 8,265 households. The following census in 2011 counted 33,107 people in 8,473 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 34,517 people in 10,035 households.

Climate

Khabr National Park

Baft is one of the natural areas in Iran. Within its locale is the Khabr National Park, which has been submitted by Iran as a

UNESCO world heritage site World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection under an treaty, international treaty administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural ...

.UNESCO World Heritage Centre (2007) Khabr National Park and Ruchun Wildlife Refuge, web page, online at https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5219/, visited 2015-03-28 Khabr National Park has a rich flora (about 750 species) and about 120 endemic species.

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