The Central District of Malekan County ( fa, بخش مرکزی شهرستان ملکان) 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

Malekan County Malekan County ( fa, شهرستان ملکان) is located in East Azerbaijan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Malekan Malekan (Romanized as Malekān; formerly, Malik Kandi (ترکی آذربایجانی: مَلِك كَندی ...

East Azerbaijan Province East Azerbaijan Province ( fa, استان آذربایجان شرقی ''Āzarbāijān-e Sharqi''; az-Arab, شرقی آذربایجان اوستانی) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is located in Iranian Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, ...

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 77,132, in 19,482 families. The District has one city:

Malekan Malekan (Romanized as Malekān; formerly, Malik Kandi (ترکی آذربایجانی: مَلِك كَندی), also Romanized as Malek Kandī and Malikkand) is a city in the Central District of Malekan County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran ...

. 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rural district Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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''):

Gavdul-e Gharbi Rural District Gavdul-e Gharbi Rural District ( fa, دهستان گاودول غربي) is in the Central District of Malekan County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is ...

Gavdul-e Markazi Rural District Gavdul-e Markazi Rural District ( fa, دهستان گاودول مركزئ) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Central District of Malekan County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, ...

, and Gavdul-e Sharqi Rural District.

References

Malekan County Districts of East Azerbaijan Province {{Malekan-geo-stub