Shahrud County () is in Semnan Province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Shahrud.

History

After the 2011 National Census, the village of Ruyan was elevated to city status as Rudiyan, and was renamed Ruyan again in 2021. After the 2016 census, Meyami District was separated from the county in the establishment of Meyami County.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 census, the county's population was 225,007 in 62,196 households. The following census in 2011 counted 238,830 people in 70,598 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the county as 218,628 in 69,723 households.

Administrative divisions

Shahrud County's population history and administrative structure over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table.

Notable people

Bayazid Bastami Bayazīd Ṭayfūr bin ʿĪsā bin Surūshān al-Bisṭāmī (al-Basṭāmī) (d. 261/874–5 or 234/848–9), commonly known in the Iranian world as Bāyazīd Basṭāmī (), was a Sufi from north-central Iran.Walbridge, John. "Suhrawardi a ...

, 9th century Sufi * Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani (963-1033), Sufi * Abbas Foroughi Bastami (1798-1857), poet

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References

{{Shahrud County, state=collapsed Shahrud County Counties of Semnan province