Mehr,_Ilam
Mehr, Ilam
City in Ilam province, Iran
Mehr (Persian: مهر)[3] is a city in, and the capital of, Gachi District of Malekshahi County, Ilam province, Iran.[4] The city is populated by Kurds.[5]
At the 2006 census, its population was 1,238 in 262 households, when it was a village in Gachi Rural District of the former Malekshahi District of Mehran County.[6] The following census in 2011 counted 1,198 people in 319 households,[7] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Malekshahi County.[4] The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 1,060 people in 301 households,[2] when the village of Mehr had been elevated to the status of a city.[8]