Qoroq, Golestan
City in Golestan province, Iran
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Qoroq (Persian: قرق)[a] is a city in Baharan District of Gorgan County, Golestan province, Iran.[3]
Demographics
Ethnicity
Many of the residents of the village are Armenians who descend from people who immigrated from the Soviet Union in the 1930s.[6]
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, Qoroq's population was 6,651 in 6,734 households, when it was a village in Qoroq Rural District.[7] The following census in 2011 counted 6,734 people in 1,962 households.[8] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 6,701 people in 2,007 households. It was the most populous village in its rural district.[4]
The village of Qoroq was converted to a city in 2016.[3]
