Dehestan (administrative division)

A dehestan (Persian: دهستان, lit. 'rural district', also Romanized as "dehestān") is a type of administrative division of Iran. It is above the village and under the bakhsh. As of 2006, there were 2,400 dehestans in Iran.

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