Behtarabad
village in Iran
Behtarabad (Persian: بهتراباد) is a neighborhood in the city of Gonbaki in the Central District of Gonbaki County, Kerman province, Iran.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, Behtarabad's population was 157 in 35 households, when it was a village in Gonbaki Rural District of the former Rigan District in Bam County. The following census in 2011 counted 191 people in 49 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Rigan County. The rural district was transferred to the new Gonbaki District.
In 2011, the village of Mohammadabad-e Gonbaki merged with the villages of Abbasabad, Aliabad, Behtarabad, Dowlatabad, Hasanabad, and Jannatabad to become the city of Gonbaki. In 2023, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Gonbaki County.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Behtarabad” is village in Iran. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Behtarabad, village and Iran, not as a finished interpretation.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5776581. Authority coordinates are 28.707, 58.871. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2023.
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This entry incorporates text from “Behtarabad” 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.