Bisotun District ( fa, بخش بیستون) 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
Harsin County
Harsin County ( fa, شهرستان هرسین) is in Kermanshah province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Harsin, east of Kermanshah, above sea level. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 90,452 in 20,788 households ...
,
Kermanshah 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 24,793, in 5,758 families.
The district has one city:
Bisotun
Bisotun ( fa, بيستون; also Romanized as Bīsotūn; also known as Bīsītan and Bīsītūn) is a city and capital of Bisotun District, in Harsin County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,075, in 527 famili ...
. The District has two
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Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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''):
Chamchamal Rural District and
Shirez Rural District.
References
Harsin County
Districts of Kermanshah Province
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