Bandar Deylam
city in Bushehr Province, Iran
Bandar Deylam (Persian: بندر ديلم) is a port city in the Central District of Deylam County, Bushehr province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 19,829 in 4,426 households. The following census in 2011 counted 22,393 people in 5,603 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 25,730 people in 7,359 households.
On 16 February 2005 a large explosion was reported close to the site of a newly built nuclear power plant. Iranian officials later announced that the explosion was caused by construction work on a dam at Kowsar, near Deylam.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bandar Deylam” is city in Bushehr Province, Iran. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bandar, Deylam and city, not as a finished interpretation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q720292. VIAF identifies the subject as 133927850. The Library of Congress control number is n2009072173. Authority coordinates are 30.054, 50.159. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2005.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bandar Deylam” 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.