Evaz County ( fa, شهرستان اوز) is in
Fars province,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. The capital of the county is the city of
Evaz
Evaz ( fa, اوز, also Romanized as Awadh, Avaz, Evazeh, and ‘ewaz) is a city and capital of Evaz County, in Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 14,315, in 3,297 families. The people of Evaz are native Persians of ...
. At the 2006 census, the region's population (as Evaz District of
Larestan County
Larestan County ( fa, شهرستان لارستان) is located in Fars province, Iran. The capital of the county is Lar. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions of the county later split off to form Evaz County ...
) was 33,346 in 6,922 households.
[ Retrieved 12 November 2022] The following census in 2011 counted 45,752 people in 10,352 households.
At the 2016 census, the district's population was 40,731 in 10,940 households.
Evaz District was separated from Larestan County in 2018 to become Evaz County.
The language spoken there comes from the ancient Persian dialect called Achomi (Avazi). The majority of the people in Evaz follow the religion Islam Sunni despite being the minority in Iran who follow this belief.
Administrative divisions
The population history of Evaz County's administrative divisions (as Evaz District of Larestan County) over three consecutive censuses is shown in the following table.
References
Counties of Fars Province
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