Sarbisheh County ( fa, شهرستان سربیشه) is in
South Khorasan
South Khorasan Province ( fa, استان خراسان جنوبی ''Ostān-e Khorāsān-e Jonūbī'') is a province located in eastern Iran. Birjand is the centre of the province. The other major cities are Ferdows, Tabas and Qaen. In 2014, it ...
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 Turkm ...
. The capital of the county is the city of
Sarbisheh
Sarbisheh ( fa, سربيشه, also Romanized as Sarbīsheh and Sar-bice) is a city in and the capital of Sarbisheh County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 6,141, in 1,553 families.
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. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 37,591 in 10,119 households.
[ Retrieved 6 November 2022] The following census in 2011 counted 39,487 people in 11,164 households.
At the 2016 census, the county's population was 40,959 in 12,011 households.
Sarbisheh is
Persian for "forest gate," and contains the last remaining
dry forests of southern Khorasan in its surrounding mountains.
Administrative divisions
The population history and structural changes of Sarbisheh County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table. The latest census shows three districts, six rural districts, and two cities.
References
Counties of South Khorasan Province
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