The Central District of Sarayan County also known as Ayask District ( fa, بخش آیسک) 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

Sarayan County Sarayan County ( fa, شهرستان سرایان) is in South Khorasan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Sarayan. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 34,636 in 9,140 households. Retrieved 6 November 2022 The ...

South Khorasan Province South Khorasan Province ( fa, استان خراسان جنوبی ''Ostān-e Khorāsān-e Jonūbī'') is a province located in eastern Iran. Birjand is the centre of the province. The other major cities are Ferdows, Tabas and Qaen. In 2014, it wa ...

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 23,302, in 6,476 families. The District has two cities:

Sarayan Sarayan ( fa, سرايان, also Romanized as Sarāyān, Sarā’īān and Sīryān) is a city in, and the capital of, Sarayan County, South Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called P ...

and

Ayask Ayask ( fa, آيسك, also Romanized as Āysak; also known as Ayāz and Aiāz) is a city in the Central District of Sarayan County, South Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Per ...

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rural district Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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

References

Districts of South Khorasan Province Sarayan County {{Sarayan-geo-stub