Sumar, Iran

Ethnicity

The city is populated by Kurds.^[5]

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 20 in 15 households.^[6] The following census in 2011 counted 9 people in 5 households.^[7] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 180 people in 9 households.^[2]

Sumar border market was inaugurated as the ninth border market on the Iranian side of the Iran-Iraq border on 5 April 2015. The border market, in which more than 100 billion rials has been invested, was officially inaugurated during a ceremony attended by the governors of Kermanshah and the Iraqi province of Dialeh. It is in the Sumar-Mandali border region. As its first commercial activity, the 40-hectare border market's primary aim was to export 200 tons of cement to Iraq. Currently, Parviz border market near the city of Qasr-e Shirin is the major export channel through which 52% of the Iranian goods are exported to Iraq.^[8]

• Soumar (missile), is named after this city.
• Kalhor
• Naft shahr
• Eyvan
• Eyvan County
• Ghalajeh tunnel
• Gilan-e Gharb County

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