Sistan and Baluchestan Province

Sistan and Baluchistan (Persian سيستان و بلوچستان ) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Capital is Zahedan. In the province of 2,405,742 people ( 2006 census ). The province covers 181 785 square kilometers and has a population density of 13 inhabitants per square kilometer.

Geography

Sistan and Baluchistan are in the southeast of the country, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as the provinces of South Khorasan, Kerman and Hormozgan. The capital is Zahedan with 567 449 inhabitants ( 2006 census ) is the largest city in the province. In the north of the province is the area of Sistan, whose name is derived from the Scythian people of the Saka ( Sacae ). There was in the Middle Ages the larger historical region Zabulistan. The south of the province consists of the Iranian part of Baluchistan region, and once belonged to the historical regions Gedrosia and Makran.

The annual average temperature of the province is 20.8 degrees Celsius and the annual rainfall 80 millimeters on average. The warmest month is July with an average of 33.1 degrees Celsius, the coldest January with 7.5 degrees Celsius on average.

The least precipitation falls from April to September with an average of zero to three millimeters, the highest rainfall from October to March with eight to 15 millimeters on average.

Administrative divisions

Sistan and Baluchistan is divided into eight districts:

  • Tschahbahar
  • Iranshahr
  • Khash
  • Neekschahr
  • Saravan
  • Sarbaz
  • Zabol
  • Zahedan

Population

The population consists mostly of Balochi speaking Baloch, whose settlement area extends over the eastern Iran, southern Afghanistan and southwest Pakistan. Of the Baluchis, the Sistani can be distinguished as a subset. The classification is related to their eponymous settlement areas and their local, Sistani called dialect of the Persian language.

The first identity by Baluchis their ethnicity at, then they call themselves Muslims (mostly Sunni), and only then they carry a national identity (ie, Iranians, Afghans, Pakistanis ).

The wife of the Shah Farah Pahlavi embarked on her first trip to the provinces of Iran in December 1965 after Sistan and Baluchisten. It describes the Baluchis in your travel report as a tall, slim, with dark complexion, deep black eyes, long bony nose and solid cheekbones. The women's eyes would the darkness of the desert Kawir radiate with strong drawn eyebrows. Her figure was slender and well-proportioned.

The population is very poor, although the province has rich mineral resources such as gold, diamonds, silver, chromide, copper and other metals, which were, however, had not yet developed.

Economy

Agriculture suffers from heat and drought, as well as a general lack of water. In previous years was in the province the center of the cane.

Universities

  • University of Sistan and Baluchistan at Zahedan
  • Zabol University
  • Islamic Azad University of Iranshahr
  • Islamic Azad University of Zahedan
  • Zahedan University of Medical Sciences
  • Zabol University of Medical Sciences
  • International University of Chabahar

Attractions

In Sistan among other Shahr -e Investigated, the largest prehistoric site in Iran is.

Tschahbahar coast of the Gulf of Oman with deep-water port

The Naseri - Ghaleh in Iranshahr

Station of Zahedan

Monument Ya'qub ibn al - Layth al - Saffar, founder of the dynasty Saffarids, in the city of Zabol

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