Rafsanjan County ( fa, شهرستان رفسنجان) is in
Kerman province,
Iran
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. The capital of the county is the city of
Rafsanjan. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 291,417, in 71,830 households.
The following census in 2011 counted 287,921 people in 76,797 households, by which time Anar District had been separated from the county to form
Anar County.
At the 2016 census, the county's population was 311,214 in 91,511 households.
Former Iranian president,
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ( fa, اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی, Akbar Hāshemī Rafsanjānī, born Akbar Hashemi Bahramani, 25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian politician, writer, and one of the founding fathers of the Islami ...
was born in Bahreman, in Rafsanjan County.
Administrative divisions
The population history and structural changes of Rafsanjan County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table. The latest census shows four districts, 14 rural districts, and five cities.
References
Counties of Kerman Province
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