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Yazd
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Behabad
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Asfyj Rural District ( fa, دهستان اسفيج)
is in
Asfyj District
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of
Behabad County,
Yazd
Yazd ( fa, یزد ), formerly also known as Yezd, is the capital of Yazd Province, Iran. The city is located southeast of Isfahan. At the 2016 census, the population was 1,138,533. Since 2017, the historical city of Yazd is recognized as a Worl ...
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 ...
.
Its capital is the village of
Asfyj.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population (as a part of the former Behabad District of
Bafq County
Bafq County ( fa, شهرستان بافق) is in Yazd province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Bafq. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 51,507 in 13,307 households. Retrieved 7 November 2022 The following census in ...
) was 2,070 in 525 households.
There were 2,127 inhabitants in 653 households at the following census of 2011,
by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Behabad County. The rural district was transferred to the new Asfyj District.
The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 2,064 in 714 households. The most populous of its 61 villages was
Asfyj, with 619 people.
See also
References
Rural Districts of Yazd province
Populated places in Behabad County
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