Poshtkuh_Rural_District_(Mehdishahr_County)
Poshtkuh Rural District (Mehdishahr County)
Rural district in Semnan province, Iran
Poshtkuh Rural District (Persian: دهستان پشتكوه) is in Shahmirzad District of Mehdishahr County, Semnan province, Iran.[3] Its capital is the village of Fulad Mahalleh.[4]
At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Mehdishahr District of Semnan County) was 1,825 in 561 households.[5] There were 5,717 inhabitants in 1,609 households at the following census of 2011,[6] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Mehdishahr County.[3] At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 3,844 in 1,326 households. The most populous of its 68 villages was Fulad Mahalleh, with 2,518 people.[2]