Khur | |
Native Name: | Persian: خور |
Native Name Lang: | fa |
Settlement Type: | City |
Pushpin Map: | Iran |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Iran |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Fars |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Larestan |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Central |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 7338 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | IRST |
Utc Offset: | +3:30 |
Khur (Persian: خور) is a city in the Central District of Larestan County, Fars province, Iran.
People of Khur speak Khuri (a local language also called "Achomi") and Persian.
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 6,370 in 1,360 households.[2] The following census in 2011 counted 6,821 people in 1,470 households.[3] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 7,338 people in 1,829 households.[4]
Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Khur has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 78%, and female literacy is 62%. In Khur, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age. In term of religion, 100% percent of people are Sunni Muslims. Most of the men are either self-employed or employees in Gulf Countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and so on. Additionally, 10 to 20% of them are local in UAE and Qatar, some never having seen their hometown at all, using Khuri in their family names. Some are working for government and some are wealthy enough to have major businesses.
Khur is a 400-year-old city located in southern part of Fars province. The city is 300 km away from Shiraz.
It has such hot and dry weather during summer and cold dry during winter. In order to have rain specially during summer which starts at the second month of summer as it is known as chel pasini ("forty afternoons").