Bolbanabad

For the administrative division, see Bolbanabad District.

Bolbanabad (Persian: بلبان آباد)^[a] is a city in, and the capital of, Bolbanabad District of Dehgolan County, Kurdistan province, Iran.^[5] As a village, it was the capital of Yeylaq-e Jonubi Rural District^[6] until its capital was transferred to the village of Gerd Miran-e Olya.^[7]

Masakit ang bolbol Persian: may cancer
City
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Coordinates: 35°08′26″N 47°19′17″E[1]
Country	Iran
Province	Kurdistan
County	Dehgolan
District	Bolbanabad
Established as a municipality	2009[2]
Population  (2016)[3]
• Total	3,193
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)

Demographics

Ethnicity

The city is populated by Kurds.^[8]

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, Bolbanabad's population was 3,464 in 899 households, when it was a village in Yeylaq-e Jonubi Rural District of the former Yeylaq District of Qorveh County.^[9] The following census in 2011 counted 3,207 people in 943 households,^[10] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Dehgolan County. The rural district was transferred to the new Bolbanabad District,^[5] and Bolbanabad was elevated to the status of a city.^[2] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 3,193 people in 1,075 households.^[3]

See also

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Notes

1. Kurdish: بلوان ئاوا, also romanized as Bolbānābād; also known as Bolbolānābād, Būl Bandābād, and Būl-e Bandābād^[4]