The Central District of Marivan County ( fa, بخش مرکزی شهرستان مریوان) 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
Marivan County
Marivan County ( fa, شهرستان مریوان, ku, شارستانی مەریوان) is in Kurdistan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Marivan. Marivan County is bordered by Saqqez County to the north, Sanandaj Cou ...
,
Kurdistan 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 128,445, in 30,732 families.
The District has one city:
Marivan
Mariwan ( fa, مريوان; ) also known as Qale Marīvān - "Fort Marivan"; formerly, Dezhe Shahpur (Persian: دِژ شاهپور), also Romanized as Dezhe Shāhpūr and Dezhe Shapoor) is a town in – and the capital of – Marivan Co ...
. 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Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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''):
Kumasi Rural District
Kumasi Rural District ( fa, دهستان كوماسي) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Central District of Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia ...
,
Sarkal Rural District
Sarkal Rural District ( fa, دهستان سركل) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Central District of Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is ...
, and
Zarivar Rural District.
References
Marivan County
Districts of Kurdistan Province
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