Sarmast () is a city in, and the capital of,
Gowavar District
Gowavar District () is in Gilan-e Gharb County, Kermanshah province, Kermanshah province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Sarmast.
Demographics Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the district's population was 19,023 in 3,9 ...
of
Gilan-e Gharb County
Gilan-e Gharb County () is in Kermanshah province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Gilan-e Gharb.
Demographics Language
People in Gilan-e Gharb speak Kurdish (Kalhori).Kermanshah
Kermanshah is a city in the Central District (Kermanshah County), Central District of Kermanshah province, Kermanshah province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. The city is from Tehran in the western pa ...
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 ...
.
It also serves as the administrative center for
Gowavar Rural District.
The city is close to the
Ghalajeh tunnel Ghalajeh tunnel (Persian language, Persian: تونل قلاجه) or Arba'een tunnel is a tunnel half of which is located in Eyvan County in Ilam province and the other half in Gwawar District of Gilan-e Gharb County in Kermanshah province of Iran. I ...
.
Demographics
Etnicity
Sarmast is populated by
Kurds
Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...
.
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 2,434 in 515 households.
The following census in 2011 counted 2,858 people in 702 households.
The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 2,913 people in 811 households.
See also
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Kalhor
*
Ghalajeh Protected Area
References
Cities in Kermanshah province
Populated places in Gilan-e Gharb County
Kurdish settlements in Kermanshah province
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