Eresk
City in South Khorasan province, Iran
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Eresk (Persian: ارسک)[a] is a city in, and the capital of, Eresk District[5] in Boshruyeh County, South Khorasan province, Iran. It also serves as the administrative center for Eresk Rural District.[6]
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, Eresk's population was 2,657 in 783 households, when it was a village in Eresk Rural District of the former Boshruyeh District in Ferdows County.[7] The village was converted to a city in 2010.[citation needed] The following census in 2011 counted 2,954 people in 909 households,[8] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Boshruyeh County. The rural district was transferred to the new Eresk District.[5] In 2013, the Supreme Council of Urban Planning and Architecture reviewed the Comprehensive and Detailed Plan of the City of Eresk.[9] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 2,955 people in 980 households.[3]
