Arad, Iran
city in Fars Province, Iran
Arad (Persian: ارد) is a city in, and the capital of, Arad District of Gerash County, Fars province, Iran. It also serves as the administrative center for Arad Rural District.
The outskirts of the city include many farming areas and dry open land. Arad is enclosed by two large mountains running parallel to the city. This makes travel to the city difficult. There is one two sided paved road running from a two-way split further down the road. This highway runs both east and west to large cities such as Jahrom, Qom, Firouzabad, Shiraz, Lar, Evaz, Gerash, and continues all the way South to the port city of Bandar Abbas.
Demographics
Ethnicity and religion
Islamic Shia : 97%
Islamic Sunni : 1%
Turks: 1%
Afghan and other: 1%
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, Arad's population was 5,264 in 1,181 households, when it was a village in Arad Rural District of the former Gerash District of Larestan County. The following census in 2011 counted 5,574 people in 1,623 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Gerash County. The rural district was transferred to the new Central District, and six months later was transferred to the new Arad District.
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