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{{Short description|Village in North Khorasan province, Iran}}
{{for|the administrative division|Rasteqan Rural District}}
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|subdivision_type1       = [[Provinces of Iran|Province]]
|subdivision_name1       = [[North Khorasan province|North Khorasan]]
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|subdivision_name2       = [[Raz and Jargalan County|Raz and Jargalan]]
|subdivision_type3       = [[Bakhsh|District]]
|subdivision_name3       = [[Gholaman District|Gholaman]]
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|subdivision_name4       = [[Rasteqan Rural District|Rasteqan]]
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'''Rasteqan''' ({{langx|fa|راستقان}}){{efn|Also [[romanize]]d as '''Rāsteqān'''<ref>{{GEOnet3|-3080896|Rasteqan}}</ref>}} is a village in, and the capital of, [[Rasteqan Rural District]] of [[Gholaman District]], [[Raz and Jargalan County]], [[North Khorasan province|North Khorasan]] province, [[Iran]].<ref name="Raz and Jargalan County Establishment">{{cite report|title=Distributional changes in North Khorasan province|language=fa|website=qavanin.ir|via=Laws and Regulations Portal of the Islamic Republic of Iran|url=https://qavanin.ir/Law/TreeText/197909|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108123301/https://qavanin.ir/Law/TreeText/197909|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Cabinet of Ministers|archive-date=8 January 2021|orig-date=Approved 29 September 2013|date=c. 2021|id=Proposal 185757/42/4/1|last=Rahimi|first=Mohammad Reza|access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref>
==Demographics==
===Population===
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 1,073 in 253 households, when it was in [[Gholaman Rural District]] of the former [[Raz and Jargalan District]] of [[Bojnord County]].<ref name="2006 North Khorasan Province">{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): North Khorasan Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/28.xls|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920084106/http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/28.xls|format=Excel|archive-date=20 September 2011}}</ref> The following census in 2011 counted 840 people in 249 households.<ref name="2011 North Khorasan Province">{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): North Khorasan Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=irandataportal.syr.edu|via=Iran Data Portal, Syracuse University|url=https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/North-Khorasan.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119210728/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/North-Khorasan.xls|archive-date=19 January 2023|access-date=19 December 2022|format=Excel}}</ref> The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 922 people in 312 households,<ref name="2016 North Khorasan Province">{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): North Khorasan Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_28.xlsx|access-date=19 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027174651/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_28.xlsx|format=Excel|archive-date=27 October 2020}}</ref> by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Raz and Jargalan County, and the rural district was transferred to the new Gholaman District. Rasteqan was transferred to Rasteqan Rural District created in the district.<ref name="Raz and Jargalan County Establishment"/>
==See also==
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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{{North Khorasan Province|state=collapsed}}
[[Category:Populated places in Raz and Jargalan County]]
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