IRAN - Travel to SISTAN & BALUCHESTAN Province / سفر به سیستان و بلوچستان

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Sistan and Baluchestan Province is the second largest province of the 31 provinces of Iran, after Kerman Province. It is in the southeast of the country, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, and its capital is Zahedan.
The province is the second largest province in Iran with an area of 180,726 km2 and a population of 2.5 million.

The population comprises the Baloch who form a majority in the province, with Persian Sistani minority. Smaller communities of Kurds (in the eastern highlands and near Iranshahr), the expatriate Brahui (on the border between Iran and Pakistan), and other resident and itinerant ethnic groups, such as the Romani, are also found within the province.

Previously whole of this state was called Baluchestan, but Iran symbolically added Sistan to the end of Baluchestan and then after the 1979's revolution in Iran, the name of province was changed to Sistan & Baluchestan without any excuse. Today, Sistan refers to the narrow strip of the northern margin of the province and Baluchestan involves whole Zahedan to Chabahar. Combined Sistan and Baluchestan province today accounts for one of the driest regions of Iran with a slight increase in rainfall from east to west, and an obvious rise in humidity in the coastal regions. The province is subject to seasonal winds from different directions, the most important of which are the 120-day wind of Sistan known as baluchi word Levar, the seventh (Gav-kosh) wind, the Nambi or south wind, the Hooshak wind, the humid and seasonal winds of the Indian Ocean, the North or (Gurich) wind and the western (Gard) wind. The province borders South Khorasan Province in the north, Kerman Province and Hormozgan Province in the west, the Gulf of Oman in the south, and Afghanistan and Pakistan in east.


Naseri Castle, Iranshahr
Firuzabad Castle

Almost in whole of Sistān and Balūchestān, the people are mostly Balōch and speak the Baluchi language, although there also exists among them a small community of speakers of the Indo-Aryan language Jadgali. The name Balūchestān means "Land of the Balōch" and is used to represent the majority Baloch peoples inhabiting the province, Sistan was added to the name to represent the minority Persian peoples who speak the Sistani dialect of Persian.

Many scholars, orators, and literary personalities have sprung up from this part of Iran, amongst which are Farrukhi Sistani, Ya'qub bin Laith as-Saffar and Rostam. Ayatollah Sistani is also from Sistān; though he currently resides in Najaf, Iraq.

The minority Sistani people of "Sistan and Baluchestan province" are Shia Muslims, and the majority Baloch people of the Baluchestan area in the province are Sunni Muslims.

Sistan and Baluchestan is the poorest of Iran's 31 provinces, with a HDI score of 0.688.

The government of Iran has been implementing new plans such as creating the Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone.