Bala_Velayat_Rural_District_(Bakharz_County)
Bala Velayat Rural District (Bakharz County)
Rural district in Razavi Khorasan province, Iran
Bala Velayat Rural District (Persian: دهستان بالا ولايت) is in Bala Velayat District of Bakharz County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran.[3] Its capital is the village of Qaleh Now-e Olya.[4]
At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Bakharz District of Taybad County) was 17,145 in 3,723 households.[5] There were 11,752 inhabitants in 3,135 households at the following census of 2011,[6] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Bakharz County.[3] At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 10,984 in 3,225 households. The most populous of its 19 villages was Shahrak-e Shahid Doktor Beheshti, with 1,736 people.[2]