Sarakhs County ( fa, شهرستان سرخس) is in Razavi Khorasan 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

Sarakhs Sarakhs ( fa, سرخس, Saraxs, also Romanized as Serakhs) is a city in Sarakhs County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. Sarakhs was once a stopping point along the Silk Road, and in its 11th century heyday had many libraries. Much of the original ...

. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 85,524 in 19,485 households. The following census in 2011 counted 89,956 people in 23,438 households. At the 2016 census, the county's population was 97,519 in 26,932 households.

Administrative divisions

The population history of Sarakhs County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses is shown in the following table. The latest census shows two districts, six rural districts, and two cities.

References

Counties of Razavi Khorasan Province {{RazaviKhorasan-geo-stub