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Rural District Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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

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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 ...

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Province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

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County A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

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District A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

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IRST An infrared search and track (IRST) system (sometimes known as infrared sighting and tracking) is a method for detecting and tracking objects which give off infrared radiation, such as the infrared signatures of jet aircraft and helicopters. IR ...

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Gachi District Gachi District ( fa, بخش گچی) is a district (bakhsh) in Malekshahi County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 13,067. The District has two cities: Delgosha & Mehr. The District has one rural district (''dehestan'' ...

Malekshahi County Malekshahi County ( fa, شهرستان ملکشاهی) is in Ilam province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Arkavaz. At the 2006 census, the region's population (as Malekshahi District of Mehran County) was 31,393 in 5,722 hou ...

, Ilam province,

. Its capital is the village of Qaleh Juq. In November 2008, Malekshahi District was separated from

Mehran County Mehran County ( fa, شهرستان مهران) is located in Ilam province, Iran. The capital of the county is Mehran. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions of the county later split off to form Malekshahi Count ...

in the establishment of Malekshahi County, which was divided into two districts of two rural districts each, with the city of

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as its capital. There were 2,086 inhabitants in 517 households at the National Census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 2,210 in 576 households. The most populous of its 13 villages was Qaleh Juq, with 1,468 people.

References

Rural Districts of Ilam province Populated places in Malekshahi County {{Malekshahi-geo-stub