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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 state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

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County A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers 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 county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

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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 ...

, utc_offset = +3:30 , postal_code = , area_code = , website = , module = , footnotes = Qaleh-ye Khvajeh ( fa, قلعه خواجه), also

Romanize Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, an ...

d as Qal‘eh-ye Khvājeh, Qal‘eh Khvājeh, and Qal’eh Khājeh; also known as Qal‘eh-ye Khvājeh Bālā, is a city in the Central District of

Andika County Andika County ( fa, شهرستان اندیکا) is located in Khuzestan 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 Tur ...

, Khuzestan province,

, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is also the administrative center for

Qaleh-ye Khvajeh Rural District Qaleh-ye Khvajeh Rural District ( fa, دهستان قلعه خواجه) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Central District of Andika County, Khuzestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and als ...

. At the 2006 National Census, its population was 801 in 179 households, when it was in the former Andika District of Masjed Soleyman County. The following census in 2011 counted 2,272 people in 503 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of the new Andika County. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 2,408 people in 606 households.

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Cities in Khuzestan Province Populated places in Andika County {{Andika-geo-stub