Bam Pasht District
district in Iran
Bam Pasht District (Persian: بخش بم پشت) is in Saravan County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Sirkan.
History
After the 2016 National Census, Kuhak-e Esfandak Rural District was separated from the district in the formation of Mehregan District.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 census, the district's population was 27,221 in 6,228 households. The following census in 2011 counted 32,226 people in 7,547 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the district as 37,906 inhabitants in 9,895 households.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bam Pasht District” is district in Iran. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pasht, District and district, not as a finished interpretation.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4853264. Authority coordinates are 26.783, 62.817. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016, 2006 and 2011.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bam Pasht District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.