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Rural District Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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

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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 ...

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Central Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object. Central may also refer to: Directions and generalised locations * Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as ...

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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 Mohammadabad. At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Rigan District of

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 26,114 in 5,705 households. There were 32,023 inhabitants in 8,188 households at the following census of 2011, by which time the rural district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Rigan County. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 36,933 in 10,392 households. The most populous of its 112 villages was Abbasabad-e Sardar (now a city), with 5,125 people.

References

Rural Districts of Kerman province Populated places in Rigan County {{Rigan-geo-stub