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Rural District Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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

, subdivision_name3 = Zab , established_title = , established_date = , founder = , seat_type = Capital , seat = Aghlan , leader_title = , leader_name = , leader_title1 = , leader_name1 = , unit_pref = Metric , area_footnotes = , area_total_km2 = , elevation_footnotes = , elevation_m = , population_footnotes = , population_as_of = 2016 , population_total = 16301 , population_density_km2 = auto , population_note = , population_demonym = , timezone =

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 ...

, utc_offset = +3:30 , postal_code = , area_code = , website = , module = , footnotes = Melkari-ye Gharbi Rural District ( fa, دهستان ملکاری غربی) is in Zab District of Mirabad County, West Azerbaijan province,

. Its capital is the village of Aghlan. At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former

Vazineh District Vazineh District ( fa, بخش وزینه) is in Sardasht County, West Azerbaijan province, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. At the 2006 National Census, its population was 31,369 in 5,343 households. The following census in 2011 counted 31,040 peo ...

Sardasht County Sardasht County ( fa, شهرستان سردشت) is in West Azerbaijan 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 Tu ...

) was 16,185 in 2,841 households, when it was administered from the village of Nalas. There were 15,545 inhabitants in 4,045 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 16,301 in 4,045 households. The most populous of its 62 villages was Nalas, with 8,503 people. Nalus was elevated to the status of a city after the census and later was transferred to the new Rabat District of Sardasht County. In 2022,

was separated from Sardasht County in the establishment of Mirabad County, which was divided into two districts and two rural districts, with Mirabad as its capital and only city.

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Rural Districts of West Azerbaijan province Populated places in Mirabad County {{WestAzerbaijan-geo-stub