Nishapur_County
Nishapur County
County in Razavi Khorasan province, Iran
Nishapur County (Persian: شهرستان نیشابور), also Romanized Šahrestâne Neyšhâbur and officially as Neyshabur County, is in Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Nishapur,[3] the second largest city in the province and the third largest city in Eastern Iran.
At the 2006 census, the county's population was 441,184 in 118,214 households.[4] The following census in 2011 counted 433,105 people in 128,969 households,[5] by which time Taghenkuh District and most of Takht-e Jolgeh District had been separated from the county in the establishment of Firuzeh County, and Binalud Rural District had been transferred to the Central District.[6] At the 2016 census, the county's population was 451,780 in 142,545 households.[2]