Azarabad
village in Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran
Azarabad (Persian: اذراباد) is a village in, and the capital of, Azarabad Rural District of Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District, Dalgan County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran.
Demographics
Population
At the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 543 in 103 households, when it was in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District of the former Dalgan District of Iranshahr County. The following census in 2011 counted 343 people in 75 households in the village, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Dalgan County. The rural district was transferred to the new Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem District. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 433 people in 112 households.
After the census, Azarabad was transferred to Azarabad Rural District created in the district.
“Azarabad” enters the record as village in Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Azarabad, village and Sistan can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16836354. Authority coordinates are 27.077, 59.415. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.
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This entry incorporates text from “Azarabad” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.