Rigan County ( fa, شهرستان ریگان) is in
Kerman
Kerman ( fa, كرمان, Kermân ; also romanization of Persian, romanized as Kermun and Karmana), known in ancient times as the satrapy of Carmania, is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 821,394, in ...
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 ...
. The capital of the county is the city of
Mohammadabad. At the 2006 census, the region's population (as most of Rigan District in
Bam County
Bam County ( fa, شهرستان بم) is located in Kerman province, Iran. The capital of the county is Bam. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including portions later split off to form Fahraj County, Narmashir County
Narmashir ...
) was 53,059 in 11,380 households.
The following census in 2011 counted 66,335 people in 17,598 households, by which time those parts had been separated from the county to form Rigan County.
At the 2016 census, the county's population was 88,410 in 23,983 households.
Administrative divisions
The population history and structural changes of Rigan County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table. The latest census shows two districts, four rural districts, and two cities.
References
Counties of Kerman Province
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