Sumay-ye Beradust District
district in Iran
Sumay-ye Beradust District (Persian: بخش صومای برادوست) is in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Serow.
Demographics
Ethnicity and religion
The district is populated by Kurds and Azerbaijani Turks. The Kurds speak Kurmanji Kurdish and mainly follow Sunni Islam while the Azerbaijanis speak Azeri Turkish and mainly follow Shia Islam.
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the district's population was 39,802 in 6,760 households. The following census in 2011 counted 36,216 people in 7,721 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the district as 35,183 inhabitants in 7,831 households.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sumay-ye Beradust District” as district in Iran. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as district in Iran. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
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 Nov 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4815498. Authority coordinates are 37.833, 44.667. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sumay-ye Beradust 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.