Esmailiyeh-ye Shomali Rural District
rural district in Khuzestan province, Iran
Esmailiyeh-ye Shomali Rural District (Persian: دهستان اسماعیلیه شمالی) is in Esmailiyeh District of Ahvaz County, Khuzestan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Khobeyneh-ye Sofla. The previous capital of the rural district was the village of Safheh-ye Yek.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population (as Esmailiyeh Rural District of the Central District) was 48,235 in 8,615 households. There were 33,933 inhabitants in 7,632 households at the following census of 2011. The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 10,081 in 2,694 households, by which time the rural district had been separated from the district in the establishment of Esmailiyeh District and renamed Esmailiyeh-ye Shomali Rural District. The most populous of its 45 villages was Am Altamir, with 5,004 people.
The public source identifies “Esmailiyeh-ye Shomali Rural District” as rural district in Khuzestan province, Iran. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Esmailiyeh-ye, Shomali and Rural.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q39296660. Authority coordinates are 31.245, 48.403. 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 “Esmailiyeh-ye Shomali 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.