Badreh

For the administrative division of Ilam province, see Badreh County.

Badreh (Persian: بدره)^[a] is a city in the Central District of Badreh County, Ilam province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.^[4]

Badreh Persian: بدره
City
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Coordinates: 33°18′22″N 47°02′14″E[1]
Country	Iran
Province	Ilam
County	Badreh
District	Central
Population  (2016)[2]
• Total	4,278
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)

Demographics

Ethnicity

Approximately 90 percent of the city natively speaks the Bayray dialect of the Elami subgroup of Southern Kurdish, while the remaining 10 percent speaks Northern Luri.^[5]

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 3,775 in 868 households,^[6] when it was capital of the former Badreh District^[7] of Darreh Shahr County. The following census in 2011 counted 4,249 people in 1,104 households.^[8] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 4,278 people in 1,249 households,^[2] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Badreh County. Badreh was transferred to the new Central District as the county's capital.^[4]

See also

Iran portal

Notes

1. Also romanized as Badra and Bedre^[3]