Asalem District ( fa, بخش اسالم) is a district (

bakhsh A ( fa, بخش, also romanized as ) is a third-level administrative division of Iran. While sometimes translated as "county," it is more accurately translated as "district," similar to a township in the United States or a district of En ...

) in

Talesh County Talesh County ( fa, شهرستان تالش; also Tavalesh ( fa, طوالش) is in Gilan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Hashtpar. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 179,499 in 42,949 households. Retriev ...

, Gilan Province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 39,089, in 9,203 families. The District has one city:

Asalem Asalem ( fa, اسالم, also Romanized as Asālem) is a city and capital of Asalem District, in Talesh County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 3,347, in 827 families. Asalemi dialect is a variety of Talysh Talysh m ...

. The District has three

rural district Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Ad ...

s (''dehestan''): Asalem Rural District, Khaleh Sara Rural District, and Kharajgil Rural District.

References

Talesh County Districts of Gilan Province {{Talesh-geo-stub