[custom_adv] Chābahār is a city and capital of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province. [custom_adv] It is a free port (Free Trade Zone) on the coast of the Gulf of Oman, and is southernmost city. The sister port city of Gwadar in Pakistan's Balochistan Province is about 170 kilometres (110 mi) to the east of Chabahar. [custom_adv] Chabahar is situated on the Makran Coast of the Sistan and Baluchestan province of and is officially designated as a Free Trade and Industrial Zone by government. Due to its free trade zone status, the city has increased in significance in international trade. [custom_adv] The overwhelming majority of the city's inhabitants are ethnic Baluch, who speak their native Baluchi language in addition to Persian. Chabahar is closest and best access point to the Indian Ocean. [custom_adv] For this reason, Chabahar is the focal point development of the east of the country through expansion and enhancement of transit routes among countries situated in the northern part of the Indian Ocean and Central Asia. [custom_adv] The hope is that with the development of transit routes, and better security and transit services, the benefits will reach the local residents. Chabahar's economic sectors are fish industries and commercial sector, fishery sectors with the largest amount of country's fish catch, mainly located out of the Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone. [custom_adv] Growing commercial sector located at free trade area with high potentiality to turn to a place that would connect business growth centers in south Asia (India) and Middle East (Dubai) to central Asian and Afghanistan market. [custom_adv] The government plans to link the Chabahar free trade area to main rail network, which is connected to Central Asia and Afghanistan as well. [custom_adv] Society and culture in the city of Chabahar is largely urban and made up of native families who are widely known as Meids (Fisherman, the people who live on the coast) and Shiri Baloch. Doshoki, Soltanpur and Amani are some of the oldest and prominent native families who owned most of the lands and properties in the city of Chabahar. The county of Chabahar which covers a wider region beyond the city of Chabahar has gained its characteristics from the classified tribal community of the Makran region.