Dasht-e Sar-e Sharqi Rural District
rural district in Mazandaran Province, Iran
Dasht-e Sar-e Sharqi Rural District (Persian: دهستان دشت سر شرقی) is in Dasht-e Sar District of Amol County, Mazandaran province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Nezamabad. The previous capital of the rural district was the village of Najjar Mahalleh, now a neighborhood in the city of Babakan.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population (as Dasht-e Sar Rural District of Dabudasht District) was 35,795 in 9,263 households. The following census of 2011 counted 37,302 people in 10,825 households, by which time the rural district had been separated from the district in the formation of Dasht-e Sar District and renamed Dasht-e Sar-e Sharqi Rural District. The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 20,146 in 6,168 households. The most populous of its 22 villages was Ejbar Kola (now the city of Babakan), with 4,499 people.
“Dasht-e Sar-e Sharqi Rural District” enters the record as rural district in Mazandaran Province, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dasht-e, Sar-e and Sharqi can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18350391. Authority coordinates are 36.413, 52.470. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.
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This entry incorporates text from “Dasht-e Sar-e Sharqi Rural District” 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.