Jam County

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title: "Jam County" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["jam-county", "counties-of-bushehr-province", "2003-establishments-in-iran"] description: "County in Bushehr province, Iran" topic_path: "geography/iran" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_County" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary County in Bushehr province, Iran ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
name	Jam County
native_name
settlement_type	County
image_skyline	Dimidi from the hill.jpg
image_caption	The village of Dumiti in Jam County
image_map	Bushehr.svg
image_map1	IranBushehr-SVG.svg
map_caption	Location of Jam County in Bushehr province (bottom, purple)
map_caption1	Location of Bushehr province in Iran
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Iran
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Bushehr
seat_type	Capital
seat	Jam
parts_type	Districts
parts_style	para
p1	Central
p2	Riz
established_title	Established
established_date	2003
population_as_of	2016
population_footnotes
population_total	70051
coordinates
coordinates_footnotes
timezone	IRST
utc_offset	+3:30
footnotes
::

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Jam County () is in Bushehr province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Jam.

History

Two villages merged to form the city of Anarestan in 2009, and the village of Baharestan was converted to a city in 2019.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the county's population was 37,999 in 8,412 households. The following census in 2011 counted 51,446 people in 13,748 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the county as 70,051 in 19,997 households.

Administrative divisions

Jam County's population history and administrative structure over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table.

::data[format=table title="Jam County Population"]

Administrative Divisions	2006	2011	2016
Central District	28,535	40,428	57,037
Jam RD	14,417	20,426	21,089
Kuri RD	3,309	3,689	4,512
Baharestan (city)
Jam (city)	10,809	16,313	31,436
Riz District	9,464	11,018	12,973
Anarestan RD	2,891	616	666
Riz RD	1,422	1,562	1,594
Tashan RD	3,349	3,700	4,031
Anarestan (city)		2,735	3,400
Riz (city)	1,802	2,405	3,282
Total	37,999	51,446	70,051
::

Overview

The fast-growing city of Jam has a relatively moderate, wet climate, and is home to workers at the nearby, but very hot and dry, Kangan industrial complex. Jam is growing exponentially and affluently. Most of the workers in the city, and on the farms and gardens around the city, are Afghan migrant workers.

Notes

References

References

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