Bastam, West Azerbaijan

Bastam is a village in, and the capital of, Qarah Zia od Din Rural District of the Central District of Chaypareh County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.

At the 2006 National Census, its population was 681 in 155 households, when it was in the former Chaypareh District of Khoy County. The following census in 2011 counted 622 people in 162 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Chaypareh County. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 447 people in 131 households.

Headed by Wolfram Kleiss, the German Archaeological Institute excavated a Urartean site dating to the 7th cent. BC at Bastam in 1972-1975 and 1977–1978.