Laft
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For the nearby village of "Old Laft", see Laft-e Kohneh.
Laft (Persian: لافت)[lower-alpha 1] is a city in the Central District of Qeshm County, Hormozgan province, Iran. Laft is more than 2,000 years old. It is on Qeshm Island in the Straits of Hormuz, to the southwest of Bandar Abbas.
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Laft
Persian: لافت | |
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City | |
Coordinates: 26°53′50″N 55°45′40″E[1] | |
Country | Iran |
Province | Hormozgan |
County | Qeshm |
District | Central |
Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 4,668 |
Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
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At the 2006 census, its population was 3,899 in 765 households, when it was a village in Howmeh Rural District.[4] The following census in 2011 counted 4,105 people in 952 households.[5] The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 4,668 people in 1,216 households.[2]
After the census, the village of Laft was elevated to the status of a city.[6]