Chalus County ( fa, شهرستان چالوس) is in Mazandaran 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 Chalus. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 119,559 in 33,193 households. The following census in 2011 counted 122,736 people in 37,756 households. At the 2016 census, the county's population was 116,542 in 39,105 households, by which time Kelardasht Rural District and the city of Kelardasht had been separated from the county to form Kelardasht County. The warm, humid climate of Chalus was formerly considered unhealthy, and the bulk of the population of Chalus, as of all other towns in this region, used to migrate in summer to the summer pastures on the slopes around Delir and in the Kelardasht basin, one of the most popular and longest-settled districts in the region. The people residing in Chalus speak

Mazanderani language Mazandarani (), or Tabari (), is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch spoken by the Mazandarani people. , there were over 5,320,000 native speakers. As a member of the Northwestern branch (the northern branch of Western Iranian), etym ...

. People of Chalus speak

In the west of Chalus, the dialect of kalarestaqi is spoken and in the east of Chalus, the dialect of Kojuri. During the Pahlavi dynasty, a group of Langrud people migrated from Gilan to Chalus. The Langrudis living in Chalus speak Eastern Gilaki. The Eastern

Gilaki language The Gilaki language ( ) is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch, spoken in Iran's Gilan Province. Gilaki is closely related to Mazandarani and the two languages have similar vocabularies. Though the Persian language has influence ...

is spoken in the entire valley of the Chalus river, though some Kurdish tribes were established in

Kojur Kojur ( fa, كوجور, also Romanized as Kujur; also known as Baladeh-ye Kujūr, Kujūr, Dehe Kujūr) is a city in Tavabe-e Kojur Rural District, Kojur District, Nowshahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was ...

and Kelardasht in the

Qajar Qajar Iran (), also referred to as Qajar Persia, the Qajar Empire, '. Sublime State of Persia, officially the Sublime State of Iran ( fa, دولت علیّه ایران ') and also known then as the Guarded Domains of Iran ( fa, ممالک م ...

period

Administrative divisions

The population history and structural changes of Chalus County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table. The latest census shows two districts, four rural districts, and three cities.

References

Counties of Mazandaran Province {{Mazandaran-geo-stub