The city is populated by Kurds from the Kalhor tribe.[5]
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 19,431 in 4,620 households.[6] The following census in 2011 counted 20,922 people in 5,504 households.[7] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 22,331 people in 6,652 households.[2]
Infrastructure
Roads
The main access road is the Gilan-e Gharb-Eslamabad-e Gharb route connecting it to Kermanshah.[8][9] It is also located on the Qasr-e Shirin-Ilam road which has become a shorter route after the paving of the nawdar rural road in 2015.[10][11][12] Other routes include the Gilan-e Gharb-Sarpol-e Zahab and Gilan-e Gharb-Sumar roads.[10]
^Gilan-e Gharb can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3064347" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".