Nik Pey
{{Short description|City in Zanjan province, Iran}}
{{for|the village in Razavi Khorasan province|Nik Pey, Razavi Khorasan{{!}}Nik Pey}}
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|subdivision_name1 = Zanjan
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|subdivision_name3 = Zanjanrud
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Nik Pey ({{langx|fa|نيک پي}}){{efn|Also romanized as Nīk Pey{{GEOnet3|-3076996|Nik Pey}}}} is a city in, and the capital of, Zanjanrud District in Zanjan County, Zanjan province, Iran.{{cite report|title=Approval of the organization and chain of citizenship of elements and units of the national divisions of Zanjan province, centered in Zanjan city|language=fa|website=lamtakam.com|via=Lam ta Kam|url=https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/113027|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216213100/https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/113027|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Defense Political Commission of the Government Council|last=Habibi|first=Hassan|archive-date=16 December 2023|orig-date=Approved 7 July 1369|date=c. 2023|id=Notification 82844/T141K|access-date=16 December 2023}} It also serves as the administrative center for Zanjanrud-e Pain Rural District.{{cite report|title=Creation and formation of 22 rural districts including villages, farms and places in Zanjan County, the capital of Zanjan province|language=fa|website=rc.majlis.ir|via=Islamic Parliament Research Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran|url=https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/110056|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605045408/https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/110056|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Council of Ministers|last=Mousavi|first=Mirhossein|archive-date=5 June 2019|orig-date=Approved 2 February 1366|id=Proposal 11372.1.5.53; Notification 115510/T812|date=15 June 2019|access-date=10 April 2025}}
Demographics
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At the time of the 2006 National Census, Nik Pey's population was 427 in 119 households, when it was a village in Zanjanrud-e Pain Rural District.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): Zanjan 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/19.xls|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920091748/http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/19.xls|format=Excel|archive-date=20 September 2011}} The following census in 2011 counted 474 people in 122 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): Zanjan 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/Zanjan.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121160421/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Zanjan.xls|archive-date=21 January 2023|access-date=19 December 2022|format=Excel}} The 2016 census measured the population as 455 people in 115 households,{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Zanjan 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_19.xlsx|access-date=19 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427114852/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_19.xlsx|format=Excel|archive-date=27 April 2022}} by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city.{{cite report|title=Approval letter regarding the conversion of Nik Pey village, the center of Zanjanrud District, from the functions of Zanjan County in Zanjan province, to a city|language=fa|website=lamtakam.com|via=Lam ta Kam|url=https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/793117|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216215412/https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/793117|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Political and Defense Commission|last=Rahimi|first=Mohammadreza|archive-date=16 December 2023|orig-date=Approved 21 April 2013|date=c. 2023|id=Notification 83483/T46448K|access-date=16 December 2023}}
See also
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{{Zanjan Province|state=collapsed}}
{{Zanjan County|state=collapsed}}
Category:Cities in Zanjan province
Category:Populated places in Zanjan County
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