Torkan,_Yazd
Torkan, Yazd
Village in Yazd province, Iran
Torkan (Persian: تركان)[lower-alpha 1] is a village in Harabarjan Rural District of the Central District of Marvast County, Yazd province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 969 in 274 households, when it was in Marvast District of Khatam County.[4] The following census in 2011 counted 1,136 people in 298 households.[5] The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 1,332 people in 429 households. It was the most populous village in its rural district.[2]
After the census, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Marvast County, which was divided into two districts of two rural districts each, with Marvast as its capital and only city.[6]