Panchah

Panchah (; ) is a village in Kisom Rural District of the Central District in Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh County, Gilan province, Iran.

Name The local Gilaki name of the village is (Pinche). The modern Persian name is (Panchāh), also rendered as Penchah.

Demographics Language It is an ancestrally Gilaki speaking village.

Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 799 in 253 households. The following census in 2011 counted 890 people in 113 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 900 people in 318 households.

Historical architecture Panchah is home to the Buq'eh Sayyid Muhammad b. Imam Ja'far Sadiq, a local shrine documented in an architectural survey of imamzadehs in Iran.

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