Rikhteh Kuh-e Varpol
village in Iran
Rikhteh Kuh-e Varpol (Persian: ريخته کوه ورپل) is a village in Kashkan-e Shomali Rural District of Shahivand District in Chegeni County, Lorestan province, Iran.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population, as Rikhteh Kuh, was 110 in 19 households, when it was in Kashkan Rural District of the former Dowreh-ye Chegeni District in Khorramabad County. The following census in 2011 counted 112 people in 28 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Dowreh County. The rural district was transferred to the new Shahivand District and renamed Kashkan-e Shomali Rural District. The village was listed as Rikhteh Kuh-e Varpol. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 118 people in 32 households.
“Rikhteh Kuh-e Varpol” enters the record as village in Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rikhteh, Kuh-e and Varpol can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Rikhteh Kuh-e Varpol” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rikhteh, Kuh-e and Varpol provides the most credible route into that argument.
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 Jun 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5809170. Authority coordinates are 33.740, 47.770. 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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How to read it
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This entry incorporates text from “Rikhteh Kuh-e Varpol” 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.