Hemmatabad
city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
Hemmatabad (Persian: همت اباد) is a city in, and the capital of, Taghenkuh District in Firuzeh County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. It also serves as the administrative center for Taghenkuh-e Shomali Rural District.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, Hemmatabad's population was 1,264 in 345 households, when it was a village in Taghenkuh-e Shomali Rural District of Nishapur County. The following census in 2011 counted 1,434 people in 364 households, by which time Taghenkuh District had been separated from the county in the establishment of Takht-e Jolgeh County. In addition, Hemmatabad had been converted to a city. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 1,274 people in 377 households.
“Hemmatabad” enters the record as city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hemmatabad, city and Razavi can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Hemmatabad” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hemmatabad, city and Razavi 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 Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1771034. Authority coordinates are 36.299, 58.464. 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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This entry incorporates text from “Hemmatabad” 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.