Rigan County
county in Kerman, Iran
Rigan County (Persian: شهرستان ریگان) is in Kerman province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Mohammadabad.
History
After the 2006 National Census, Rigan District was separated from Bam County in the establishment of Rigan County. In 2019, the villages of Abbasabad-e Sardar and Rahmatabad were elevated to city status.
In 2023, Gonbaki District was separated from the county in the establishment of Gonbaki County and renamed the Central District. At the same time, Posht-e Rig Rural District was established in the Central District of Rigan County, and Gavkan Rural District was separated from it in the formation of Rahmatabad District, including the new Sadabad Rural District.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2011 census, the county's population was 66,335 people in 17,598 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the county as 88,410 in 23,983 households.
Administrative divisions
Rigan County's population history and administrative structure over two consecutive censuses are shown in the following table.
“Rigan County” enters the record as county in Kerman, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rigan, County and county 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 Nov 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7333357. Authority coordinates are 28.669, 59.073. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2019, 2023 and 2011.
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This entry incorporates text from “Rigan County” 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.