Bajestan County ( fa, شهرستان بجستان) is in
Razavi Khorasan 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 ...
. The capital of the county is the city of
Bajestan. At the 2006 census, the region's population (as Bajestan District of
Gonabad County
Gonabad County ( fa, شهرستان گناباد) is located in Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Gonabad. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions of the county later split off to form B ...
) was 29,495 in 8,098 households.
The following census in 2011 counted 30,664 people in 9,244 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county to form Bajestan County.
At the 2016 census, the county's population was 31,207 in 10,011 households.
Administrative divisions
The population history and structural changes of Bajestan County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table. The latest census shows two districts, four rural districts, and two cities.
References
Counties of Razavi Khorasan Province
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