Mashhad County
County in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
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In 2007, Torqabeh District was separated from the county in the establishment of Binalud County.
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Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the county's population was 2,848,637, in 746,652 households. The following census in 2011 counted 3,069,941 people in 889,034 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the county as 3,372,660, in 1,021,068 households. It is the most populous county in the province and the second most populous in the country, behind Tehran County.
Administrative divisions
Mashhad County's population history and administrative structure over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table.
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