The Central District of Behshahr County ( fa, بخش مرکزی شهرستان بهشهر) 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
Behshahr County
Behshahr County ( fa, شهرستان بهشهر, ''Šahrestân-e Behšahr''; mzn, اَشرِفِ شهرستون, ''Ašref-e-Šahrestun'') is in Mazandaran province, Iran on the Caspian Sea. The capital of the county is the city of Behshahr
...
,
Mazandaran 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 144,332, in 37,603 families.
The District has three cities:
Behshahr
Behshahr ( fa, بهشهر; formerly Ashraf and Ashraf ol Belād) is a city in Mazandaran, Iran & the capital of Behshahr County. Located on the coast of the Caspian Sea, at the foot of the Alborz, it is approximately from Sari. At the 2006 cen ...
,
Khalil Shahr, and
Rostamkola. 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Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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''):
Kuhestan Rural District,
Miyan Kaleh Rural District, and
Panj Hezareh Rural District.
References
Behshahr County
Districts of Mazandaran Province
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