The Miandasht part of this city is mainly populated by Iranian Georgians and is known in the Georgian language as Toreli). The city was a merger of two smaller settlements, Buin and Miandasht. Buin Miandasht includes Buin, Miandasht, and Sheshjavan as a sector of the city, the latter a village until 1998.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 9,933 in 2,537 households,[12] when it was capital of the former Buin Miandasht District of Faridan County.[13] The following census in 2011 counted 10,256 people in 2,905 households.[14] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 9,889 people in 3,137 households,[2] by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Buin Miandasht County. Buin Miandasht was transferred to the new Central District as the county's capital.[4]
^Buin Miandasht can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3074872" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".