Sumar, Iran
Sumar is a city in, and the capital of, Sumar District of Qasr-e Shirin County, Kermanshah province, Iran.
Demographics
Ethnicity
The city is populated by Kurds.
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 20 in 15 households. The following census in 2011 counted 9 people in 5 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 180 people in 9 households.
Border market
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.