Shemshak
{{Short description|City in Tehran province, Iran}}
{{for|the ski resort|Shemshak (ski resort)}}
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Shemshak ({{langx|fa|شمشک}}){{GEOnet3|-3062814}} is a city in Rudbar-e Qasran District of Shemiranat County, Tehran province, Iran. A suburb of Tehran, Shemshak was established upon the merger of the former villages of Darband Sar, Darrud, Jirud, Sefidestan, Shemshak-e Bala, and Shemshak-e Pain.{{cite news|title=The city of Shemshak was added to the map of the country's divisions|language=fa|website=dolat.ir|via=Secretariat of the Government Information Council|url=https://dolat.ir/detail/221576|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161101141219/https://dolat.ir/detail/221576|archive-date=1 November 2016|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Political and Defense Commission|last=Rahimi|first=Mohammadreza|date=9 November 2011|access-date=23 October 2023}}
Demographics
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At the time of the 2006 National Census, the population (as the total of its constituent villages before the merger) was 2,383 in 702 households, when it was in Rudbar-e Qasran Rural District.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): Tehran 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/23.xls|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920084534/http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/23.xls|format=Excel|archive-date=20 September 2011}} The following census in 2011 counted 1,901 people in 644 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): Tehran 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/Tehran.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230120190153/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Tehran.xls|archive-date=20 January 2023|access-date=19 December 2022|format=Excel}} The 2016 census measured the population as 3,423 people in 1,197 households,{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Tehran 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_23.xlsx|access-date=19 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211212171617/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_23.xlsx|format=Excel|archive-date=12 December 2021}} by which time the villages had merged and Shemshak was elevated to the status of a city.
See also
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References
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{{Shemiranat County|state=collapsed}}
Category:Cities in Tehran province
Category:Populated places in Shemiranat County
Category:Ski areas and resorts in Iran
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