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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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Khuzestan
Khuzestan Province (also spelled Xuzestan; fa, استان خوزستان ''Ostān-e Xūzestān'') is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the southwest of the country, bordering Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Its capital is Ahvaz and it covers ...
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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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Shadegan
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District
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Khanafereh
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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.
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Khanafereh ( fa, خنافره) is a city in, and the capital of,
Khanafereh District Khanafereh District ( fa, بخش خنافره) is a district (bakhsh) in Shadegan County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. The district was created in 2009. At the 2006 census, its population was 24,107, in 3,966 families. The district has one city Khana ...
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Shadegan County
Shadegan County ( fa, شهرستان شادگان, ''Ŝahrestāne Ŝādegān'') is located in Khuzestan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Shadegan
Shadegan ( fa, شادگان; also Romanized as Shādegān and Shādgān; formerly, Fa ...
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Khuzestan
Khuzestan Province (also spelled Xuzestan; fa, استان خوزستان ''Ostān-e Xūzestān'') is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the southwest of the country, bordering Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Its capital is Ahvaz and it covers ...
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 ...
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It also serves as the administrative center for
Salami Rural District.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the population was 3,759 in 609 households, when it was the village of Khorusi-ye Jonubi in the former Khanafereh Rural District of the
Central District.
The following census in 2011 counted 3,633 people in 831 households,
by which time the rural district had been separated from the district in the establishment of Khanafereh District and renamed Salami Rural District.
The 2016 census measured the population as 3,853 people in 958 households,
when the village had been elevated to the status of a city and renamed Khanafereh.
See also
Notes
References
Cities in Khuzestan province
Populated places in Shadegan County
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