For other places with the same name, see Lar.
Lar
City
Native namePersian: لار
CountryIran
ProvinceFars
CountyLarestan
DistrictCentral
Population as of2016
Population total62045
Time zoneIRST (UTC+3:30)
Coordinates27°39′43″N 54°19′23″E
Elevation802 m
Area code0715

Lar (Persian: لار)[a] is a city in the Central District of Larestan County,[b] Fars province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.[1]

Ethnicity

Lar's inhabitants are Larestani people.[citation needed]

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 51,961 in 12,891 households.[2] The following census in 2011 counted 65,451 people in 16,528 households.[3] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 62,045 people in 18,578 households.[4]

History

The city was originally called Lar after the person who had first established the city. Lar (لاڑ) is the name of one of Shahnameh's famous heroes. Around the 16th and 17th centuries, Lar was considered to be a major stop along the road to the Persian Gulf when it was under the Miladian dynasty.

In the early part of the 17th century, Larestani people migrated to Arab states in the Persian Gulf in significant numbers, migrating to Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Some have surname as "Lari" or "Al Lari" along with many other family and tribal names.

Climate

Lar has a hot desert climate (BWh). Snowfall in Lar is a very rare event. It snowed in Lar in February 2017 for the first time in 50 years.[5][6]

Civilization

Lar city is divided into two areas:

  • New City, called Shahr-e Jadid,
  • Old City, called Shahr-e Qadim.

The New City, which was constructed after the historical earthquake of 1960, now accommodates the main population and is considered to be modern in terms of civil and transport engineering (e.g. dead-ends are very rare).

The Old City contains the Bazaar of Qaisariye, a pre-Safavid dynasty creation, that was proposed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on August 9, 2007.[7]

Transport

As the Department of Roads and Transport and some other centres are situated in city of Lar, an interesting aspect of it is building and construction of a modern expressway between the city of Lar and a police station 10 km from the city of Gerash, but in the cost of cutting most spending from other town and villages' roads in the region and it costs human life in the road accidents in the regions which happens almost daily and have high fatality rates.

The 6-lane expressway has been fully upgraded with high luminous lighting and high quality pavement to facilitate the transportation needs of people of Lar town but the cost is paid by cutting almost all other funds for repairs and making new roads in the area who are governed by Lar Road and Transport Department in Lar.[8]

Lar has an airport with daily flights to domestic and international destinations including Tehran, Dubai, Kuwait, Doha, Sharjah, etc.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Also romanized as Lār; also known as Larestan[9]
  2. ^ Formerly Lar County[10]

References

  1. ^ Habibi, Hassan (c. 2023 [Approved 21 June 1369]). "Approval of the organization and chain of citizenship of the elements and units of the national divisions of Fars province, centered in Shiraz" (in Persian). lamtakam.com. Ministry of the Interior, Council of Ministers. Notification 82840/T128K. Archived 7 December 2023 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 7 December 2023. – via Lam ta Kam.
  2. ^ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): Fars Province" (Excel) (in Persian). amar.org.ir. The Statistical Center of Iran. Archived 20 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): Fars Province" (Excel) (in Persian). irandataportal.syr.edu. The Statistical Center of Iran. Archived 16 January 2023 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 19 December 2022. – via Iran Data Portal, Syracuse University.
  4. ^ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Fars Province" (Excel) (in Persian). amar.org.ir. The Statistical Center of Iran. Archived 6 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  5. ^ نيوز, فداغ. "fa:بارش برف در لارستان همه را غافلگیر کرد" (in fa-IR). پایگاه خبری و اطلاع رسانی فداغ نیوز. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  6. ^ "fa:بارش برف در شهرهای جنوبی استان فارس پس از 50 سال - تسنیم" (in Persian). خبرگزاری تسنیم | Tasnim. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  7. ^ "Bazaar of Qaisariye in Laar". UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
  8. ^ "راهها" (in Persian). Archived from the original on January 3, 2007. Retrieved October 25, 2006.
  9. ^
  10. ^ "Letter of approval regarding changing the name of Lar County to Larestan" (in Persian). rc.majlis.ir. Ministry of the Interior, Council of Ministers. c. 2022. Proposal 1.42.25950; Notification 31592T24775H. Archived 21 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 4 October 2023. – via Martyrdom of Imam Ali (AS) Research Center of the Islamic Council.
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