Leylan District ( fa, بخش لیلان) is a district (
bakhsh
A ( fa, بخش, also romanized as ) is a third-level administrative division
Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as ma ...
) in
Malekan County
Malekan County ( fa, شهرستان ملکان) is located in East Azerbaijan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Malekan
Malekan (Romanized as Malekān; formerly, Malik Kandi (ترکی آذربایجانی: مَلِك كَند� ...
,
East Azerbaijan Province
East Azerbaijan Province ( fa, استان آذربایجان شرقی ''Āzarbāijān-e Sharqi''; az-Arab, شرقی آذربایجان اوستانی) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is located in Iranian Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia ...
,
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 Turkm ...
. At the 2006 census, its population was 23,234, in 5,341 families.
The District has one city:
Leylan. The District has two
rural districts (''dehestan''):
Leylan-e Jonubi Rural District and
Leylan-e Shomali Rural District.
References
Malekan County
Districts of East Azerbaijan Province
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