Zarqan Rural District (Persian: دهستان زرقان) is in the Central District of Zarqan County, Fars province, Iran. It is administered from the city of Lapui.

At the National Census of 2006, its population (as a part of the former Zarqan District of Shiraz County) was 6,154 in 1,464 households. There were 1,726 inhabitants in 77 households at the following census of 2011. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 1,092 in 259 households. The most populous of its 30 villages was Karkhaneh-ye Shalubi (کارخانه شالي کوبي), with 833 people in 229 households.

In July 2018, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Zarqan County, which was divided into two districts of two rural districts each, with the city of Zarqan as its capital.