Rahjerd-e Sharqi Rural District
rural district in Qom Province, Iran
Rahjerd-e Sharqi Rural District (Persian: دهستان راهجرد شرقي) is in Salafchegan District of Qom County, Qom province, Iran. It is administered from the city of Salafchegan.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population was 4,608 in 1,435 households. There were 3,717 inhabitants in 1,235 households at the following census of 2011. The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 3,928 in 1,346 households. The most populous of its 58 villages was Jondab, with 1,403 people.
“Rahjerd-e Sharqi Rural District” enters the record as rural district in Qom Province, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rahjerd-e, Sharqi and Rural can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Rahjerd-e Sharqi Rural District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rahjerd-e, Sharqi and Rural provides the most credible route into that argument.
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 Jul 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7283466. Authority coordinates are 34.488, 50.533. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Rahjerd-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.