Tabas Rural District
rural district in Razavi Khorasan, Iran
Tabas Rural District (Persian: دهستان طبس) is in Now Deh-e Anqolab District of Khoshab County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Shamabad.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population (as a part of the former Khoshab District in Sabzevar County) was 11,822 in 3,342 households. There were 11,105 inhabitants in 3,413 households at the following census of 2011, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Khoshab County. The rural district was transferred to the new Central District. The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 9,915 in 3,367 households. The most populous of its 94 villages was Now Deh-e Anqolab (now a city), with 3,470 people.
In 2019, the rural district was separated from the district in the formation of Now Deh-e Anqolab District.
The public source identifies “Tabas Rural District” as rural district in Razavi Khorasan, Iran. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tabas, Rural and District.
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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 Mar 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7672940. Authority coordinates are 36.433, 57.767. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2019.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tabas 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.