Sahneh County
Sahneh County is in Kermanshah province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Sahneh.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the county's population was 75,827 in 19,106 households.The following census in 2011 counted 76,678 people in 22,052 households.
The 2016 census measured the population of the county as 70,757 in 21,788 households.
Administrative divisions
Sahneh County's population history and administrative structure over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table.Language
Kurdish is widely spoken in Sahneh countyIn central district people speak Sahneh'i Kurdish which is a sub dialect of Southern Kurdish, and also in dinavar district people speak Dinavari Kurdish which is that close to Kulyayi kurdish spoken in Sonqor county that sometimes they are classified as the same sub dialect of Southern Kurdish.
Laki sub dialect of Southern kurdish is also spoken in the very south of the Sahneh county alongside the border with Harsin county.