Bakharz County ( fa, شهرستان باخرز) is in
Razavi Khorasan province,
Iran
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. The capital of the county is the city of
Bakharz
Bakharz ( fa, باخرز, also known as Ostā-ye Bākharz ( fa, استای باخرز), Ostād, Ostād Bākharz, Ostay, and Usta) is a city and capital of Bakharz County, in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 6 ...
. At the 2006 census, the region's population (as Bakharz District of
Taybad County
Taybad County ( fa, شهرستان تایباد) is in Razavi Khorasan province, Iran
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) was 40,076 in 9,024 households.
The following census in 2011 counted 53,582 people in 14,021 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county to form Bakharz County.
At the 2016 census, the county's population was 54,615 in 15,525 households.
Administrative divisions
The population history and structural changes of Bakharz County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table. The latest census shows two districts, four rural districts, and one city.
References
Counties of Razavi Khorasan Province
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