Mazhin, Iran
Mazhin (Persian: ماژين) is a city in, and the capital of, Mazhin District of Darreh Shahr County, Ilam province, Iran.
Demographics
Ethnicity
The city is populated by Lurs.
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the population was 973 in 200 households, when it was a village in Mazhin Rural District. The following census in 2011 counted 1,160 people in 294 households. The 2016 census measured the population as 1,512 people in 422 households, by which time the village of Mirza Hoseynabad had merged with the villages of Fathabad, Hamgam, Heyderabad, and Irajabad to form the new city of Mazhin.
