Qaleh Jiq-e Bozorg | |
Native Name: | Persian: قلعه جيق بزرگ |
Native Name Lang: | fa |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Iran |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Iran |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Golestan |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Gomishan |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Central |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural District |
Subdivision Name4: | Neftelijeh |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 1374 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | IRST |
Utc Offset: | +3:30 |
Qaleh Jiq-e Bozorg (Persian: قلعه جيق بزرگ) is a village in, and the capital of, Neftelijeh Rural District of the Central District of Gomishan County, Golestan province, Iran.[2]
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 1,111 in 233 households, when it was in Jafarbay-ye Sharqi Rural District of the former Gomishan District of Torkaman County.[3] The following census in 2011 counted 1,274 people in 297 households,[4] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Gomishan County. The rural district was transferred to the new Goldasht District, and Qaleh Jiq-e Bozorg was transferred to Neftelijeh Rural District created in the new Central District.[2] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 1,374 people in 370 households. It was the most populous village in its rural district.[5]