Qohestan
City in South Khorasan province, Iran
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Qohestan (Persian: قهستان)[a] is a city in, and the capital of, Qohestan District of Darmian County, South Khorasan province, Iran.[3] It also serves as the administrative center for Qohestan Rural District.[4] Qohestan is a merger of the former villages of Asiyaban (آسیابان) and Derakhsh (درخش).[5]
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, Qohestan's population was 2,451 in 674 households, when it was a village in Qohestan Rural District.[6] The following census in 2011 counted 3,028 people in 741 households,[7] by which time the village had been raised to the status of a city.[8] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 2,322 people in 701 households.[2]
