Babakan (Persian: بابكان)[a] is a city in, and the capital of, Dasht-e Sar District in Amol County, Mazandaran province, Iran.[6]

Babakan
Persian: بابكان
City
Babakan is located in Iran
Babakan
Babakan
Coordinates: 36°27′19″N 52°27′28″E / 36.45528°N 52.45778°E / 36.45528; 52.45778[1][2]
CountryIran
ProvinceMazandaran
CountyAmol
DistrictDasht-e Sar
Population
 (2016)[3]
  Total
4,499
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)

Demographics

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Population

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At the time of the 2006 National Census, its population, as the village of Ejbar Kola in Dasht-e Sar Rural District[b] of Dabudasht District, was 1,829 in 458 households.[7] The following census in 2011 counted 2,028 people in 583 households.[8] The 2016 census measured the population as 4,499 people in 1,462 households,[3] by which time the rural district had been separated from the district in the formation of Dasht-e Sar District and renamed Dasht-e Sar-e Sharqi Rural District. Ejbar Kola merged with the villages of Harun Kola, Khuni Sar, Nafar Kheyl, and Najjar Mahalleh.[6]

Ejbar Kola was converted to a city in 2017[9] and renamed Babakan in 2019.[4]

See also

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Notes

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  1. Formerly Ejbar Kola (اجباركلا),[4] also romanized as Ejbār Kolā; also known as Ejbār Kolā-ye Bālā[5]
  2. Renamed Dasht-e Sar-e Sharqi Rural District[6]

References

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  1. OpenStreetMap contributors (19 October 2024). "نفرخیل, دهستان دشت سرشرقی, بخش دشت سر [Nafar Kheyl, Dasht-e Sar-e Sharqi Rural District, Dasht-e Sar District], Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  2. "FF45+446 Ejbar Kola, Mazandaran Province, Iran" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 26 December 2025.
  3. 1 2 سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1395 : استان مازندران [General Population and Housing Census 2016: Mazandaran Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  4. 1 2 Jahangiri, Eshaq (17 March 2019) [تاریخ ابلاغ (Notification date) 26/12/1397 (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. تصویب‌نامه در خصوص تقسیمات کشوری در استان‌های آذربایجان غربی، اردبیل، اصفهان، بوشهر، سیستان و بلوچستان، فارس، قم، لرستان، مازندران [‌Approval regarding national divisions in the provinces of West Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Isfahan, Bushehr, Sistan and Baluchestan, Fars, Qom, Lorestan, Mazandaran]. پژوهشکده حقوقی شهر دانش [Shahr Danesh Law Research Institute] (in Persian). ‌وزارت کشور [Ministry of the Interior]. هیات وزیران [Council of Ministers]. شماره ابلاغیه [Notification number] 175033/T56016H. Archived from the original on 29 June 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  5. Ejbar Kola at GEOnet Names Server
  6. 1 2 3 Rahimi, Mohammad Reza (25 July 2012) [مصوب (Approved on) 1391,05,04 (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. اصلاحات تقسيماتي در استان مازندران [‌Divisional reforms in Mazandaran province]. سامانه ملی قوانین و مقررات [National System of Laws and Regulations] (in Persian). ‌وزارت کشور [Ministry of the Interior]. کمیسیون سیاسی دفاعی هیأت دولت [Political Defense Commission of the Government Board]. پيشنهاد شماره [Proposal numbers] 5622/42/4/1, 144980/42/4/1, and 40794/42/4/1. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  7. سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1385 : استان مازندران [General Population and Housing Census 2006: Mazandaran Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  8. سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1390 : استان مازندران [General Population and Housing Census 2011: Mazandaran Province]. Iran Data Portal—Syracuse University (in Persian). مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran]. Archived from the original (Excel) on 19 January 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  9. Fazli, Abdolreza Rahmani (8 August 2017) [نامه شماره ۳۳۶۶۷/۵۹۸۰۶ مورخ ۱۳۹۶/۵/۱۷ (Letter No. 33667/59806 dated 1396/5/17) (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. مصوبات وزارت کشورپیرامون تبدیل روستاهای مرکز بخش به شهر [‌Approvals of the Ministry of the Interior regarding the transformation of villages in the center of the district into cities]. لام تا کام [Lam ta Kam] (in Persian). ‌وزارت کشور [Ministry of the Interior]. هیات وزیران [Council of Ministers]. شماره ابلاغیه ۸۷۹۷۹ [Notification Number 87979. Archived from the original on 7 December 2023. Retrieved 18 June 2025.