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Rural District Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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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Fanuj Fanuj ( fa, فنوج, also Romanized as Fanūj, Fannūj, Pannūj and Fānūch) is a city in and the capital of Fanuj District, in Fanuj County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, ...

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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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. It is administered from the city of Kotij. At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Fanuj District of

Nik Shahr County Nik Shahr County ( fa, شهرستان نیک‌شهر) is located in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Nik Shahr. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those por ...

) was 11,168 in 2,449 households. There were 12,699 inhabitants in 3,085 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 7,271 in 1,950 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Fanuj County. The most populous of its 45 villages was Kotij (now a city), with 3,016 people.

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Rural Districts of Sistan and Baluchestan province Populated places in Fanuj County {{SistanBaluchestan-geo-stub