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City in Qazvin province, Iran From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Avaj (Persian: آوج)[lower-alpha 1] is a city in the Central District of Avaj County, Qazvin province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.[4]
Its people speak Azerbaijani.[citation needed]
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 3,695 in 1,042 households, when it was in the former Avaj District of Buin Zahra County.[5] The following census in 2011 counted 5,609 people in 1,616 households.[6] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 5,142 people in 1,621 households,[2] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Avaj County. Avaj was transferred to the new Central District as the county's capital.[4]
Avaj lies 130 miles (210 km) west of Tehran along Road 37, about 20 kilometres south by road from Abgarm. The city is in an agricultural area.[7] Avaj was near the epicenter of the 2002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake and thus was severely affected by it, with roughly half the town having been razed.[8]
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