Shamkan Rural District

Shamkan Rural District is in Shamkan District of Sheshtamad County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. It is administered from the city of Shamkan.

Demographics

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population was 5,947 in 1,453 households. There were 6,520 inhabitants in 1,863 households at the following census of 2011. The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 5,771 in 1,738 households. The most populous of its 20 villages was Shamkan, with 1,882 people.
In 2019, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Sheshtamad County, and the rural district was transferred to the new Shamkan District.