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Burūjird
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Burūjird District

The district consists of two parts, Markazī and Ushturīnān, seven sub-districts, and 172 inhabited locations, including two towns, Burūjird and Ushturīnān (Ministry of the Interior, 54; Statistical Centre of Iran, پانزده).

According to the census of 1385 Sh./2006, there were 323,826 inhabitants in the district (Statistical Centre of Iran, 49). The district covers 2,641 square kilometres of mostly mountainous terrain (Ministry of Education, 2/1094), borderin…

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Mobayyen, Abolhasan and Translated by Janis Esots, “Burūjird”, in: Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Farhad Daftary. Consulted online on 03 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-9831_isla_COM_05000044>
First published online: 2021



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