Sumar, Iran

Sumar is a city in, and the capital of, Sumar District of Qasr-e Shirin County, Kermanshah province, Iran. The city is populated by Kurds.

At the 2006 census, its population was 20 in 15 households. The following census in 2011 counted 9 people in 5 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 180 people in 9 households.

Border market
Sumar border market was inaugurated as the ninth border market on the Iranian side of the Iran-Iraq border on 5 April 2015. The border market, in which more than 100 billion rials has been invested, was officially inaugurated during a ceremony attended by the governors of Kermanshah and the Iraqi province of Dialeh. It is in the Sumar-Mandali border region. As its first commercial activity, the 40-hectare border market's primary aim was to export 200 tons of cement to Iraq. Currently, Parviz border market near the city of Qasr-e Shirin is the major export channel through which 52% of the Iranian goods are exported to Iraq.