Official Name: | Sheykh Shaban |
Native Name: | fa|شيخ شبان |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Iran |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Iran |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Ben |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Central |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural District |
Subdivision Name4: | Howmeh |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 2683 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | IRST |
Utc Offset: | +3:30 |
Coordinates: | 32.5883°N 50.6056°W |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
Sheykh Shaban (fa|شيخ شبان) is a village in, and the capital of, Howmeh Rural District of the Central District of Ben County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Iran.[2]
The village is populated by Persians.[3] [4]
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 2,689 in 666 households, when it was in Vardanjan Rural District of the former Ben District of Shahrekord County.[5] The following census in 2011 counted 2,586 people in 732 households.[6] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 2,683 people in 842 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Ben County. The rural district was transferred to the new Central District, and Sheykh Shaban was transferred to Howmeh Rural District created in the district.[2] It was the most populous village in its rural district.[7]