Yekkeh Soud-e Olya
village in Iran
Yekkeh Soud-e Olya (Persian: يكه سعودعليا) is a neighborhood in the village of Yekkeh Soud in Jargalan Rural District of Jargalan District in Raz and Jargalan County, North Khorasan province, Iran.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, Yekkeh Soud-e Olya's population was 1,657 in 355 households, when it was a village in Jargalan Rural District of the former Raz and Jargalan District in Bojnord County. The following census in 2011 counted 1,832 people in 470 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 1,855 people in 482 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Raz and Jargalan County. The rural district was transferred to the new Jargalan District.
In 2019, Yekkeh Soud-e Sofla merged with the villages of Hasanabad and Yekkeh Soud-e Olya to become the village of Yekkeh Soud.
“Yekkeh Soud-e Olya” enters the record as village in Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yekkeh, Soud-e and Olya can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Yekkeh Soud-e Olya” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yekkeh, Soud-e and Olya provides the most credible route into that argument.
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 Feb 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5827087. Authority coordinates are 38.172, 56.693. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2019.
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This entry incorporates text from “Yekkeh Soud-e Olya” 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.