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Kukherdharang District

district in Bastak County, Iran

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ552148 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kukherdharang District (Persian: بخش كوخردهرنگ) is in Bastak County, Hormozgan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Kukherdharang.

History

After the 2016 National Census, the village of Kukherd was elevated to city status as Kukherdharang.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 census, the district's population was 13,201 in 2,675 households. The following census in 2011 counted 16,211 people in 3,935 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the district as 16,728 inhabitants in 4,464 households.

Administrative divisions

Dams in Kukherd District

Bust-e gez Dam

Buz Dam

Jaber Dam

Jawid Dam

Shamo Dam

See also

Zeer Mountain

Dasak Mountain

Khe Aab Mountain

Nakh Mountain

Castle of Siba

Castle of Tawseelah

Paraw Kukherd

The Historic Bath of Siba

Sassanid family tree — of the Sasanian (Sassanid) dynasty

Iran portal

Notes

References

External links

Kookherd website

Further reading

Peter Jackson and Lawrence Lockhart (Ed) (1986), Vol. 6th, The Cambridge History of Iran: Cambridge University Press

الكوخردى ، محمد ، بن يوسف، (كُوخِرد حَاضِرَة اِسلامِيةَ عَلي ضِفافِ نَهر مِهران) الطبعة الثالثة ،دبى: سنة 199۷ للميلاد Mohammed Kookherdi (1997) Kookherd, an Islamic civil at Mehran river, third edition: Dubai

محمدیان، کوخری، محمد ، “ (به یاد کوخرد) “، ج1. ج2. چاپ اول، دبی: سال انتشار 2003 میلادی Mohammed Kookherdi Mohammadyan (2003), Beyade Kookherd, third edition : Dubai.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Kukherdharang District” as district in Bastak County, Iran. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kukherdharang, District and district.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2006, 2011, 1986—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kukherdharang, District and district providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Kukherdharang District”, the useful work is to connect “district in Bastak County, Iran” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

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 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q552148. Authority coordinates are 27.087, 54.491. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016, 2006, 2011 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kukherdharang 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.