At the 2006 census, its population was 8,344 in 1,294 households, when it was the village of Rashg-e Shavur in
Shavur Rural District of
Shush County.[5] The following census in 2011 counted 9,330 people in 2,217 households,[6] by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city and was renamed Shavur.[7] The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 8,833 people in 2,438 households.[2]
In 2019, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Karkheh County, which was divided into two districts of two rural districts each, with the city of
Alvan as its capital.[4]
^Also
Romanized as Shāhūr, Shahvar, and Shāvūr; formerly Rashg-e Shavur (رشگشاوور), Romanized as Rashk-e Shāhūr and Rashk-e Shāhvār; also known as Moslem Ebn-e ‘Aqīl[3]
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