Rafsanjan
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Rafsanjan is a city in and the capital of Rafsanjan County
Rafsanjan County
Rafsanjan County is a county in Kerman Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Rafsanjan. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 291,417, in 71,830 families; excluding those portions, the population was 259,863 in 64,027 families...

, Kerman Province, Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 136,388, in 33,489 families.

It is Iran's center of pistachio
Pistachio
The pistachio, Pistacia vera in the Anacardiaceae family, is a small tree originally from Persia , which now can also be found in regions of Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Sicily and possibly Afghanistan , as well as in the United States,...

 cultivation. It had an estimated population of 134,848 in 2005.http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/Iran.html

Rafsanjan is also a major center of carpet production even though the rugs are sold as Kerman
Kerman
- Geological characteristics :For the Iranian paleontologists, Kerman has always been considered a fossil paradise. Finding new dinosaur footprints in 2005 has now revealed new hopes for paleontologists to better understand the history of this area.- Economy :...

i rugs rather than Rafsanjani ones. Another large employer is the nearby Sarcheshmeh copper
Copper
Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...

 mine
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...

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Famous Rafsanjani's

  • Former President of Iran Hashemi Rafsanjani was born in Nough
    Nough, Iran
    Nough is a small village in Rafsanjan, in the province of Kerman in southern Iran. Its main source of revenue is pistachio cultivation. Rafsanjani, the ex-president of Iran, was born in this village....

     (نوق), near Rafsanjan
  • Minister of culture and islamic guidance , seyyed mohammad heseini was born in koshkouyeh (کشکوییه) ،near rafsanjan
  • Seyyed Hossein Marashi
    Hossein Marashi
    Seyyed Hossein Marashi is an Iranian politician who was the Iranian Vice President for Cultural Heritage and Tourism. Prior to that, Marashi represented Kerman in the Iranian parliament. He strongly backed opposition candidate Mousavi in the 2009 Iranian election...

     (سید حسین مرعشی; was born in koshkouyeh (کشکوییه) ،near rafsanjan ) the. Former Iranian Vice President for Cultural Heritage and Tourism.
  • Ali Samereh
    Ali Samereh
    Ali Samereh is an Iranian football player who currently plays for Mes Sarcheshmeh in the Persian Gulf Cup. He usually plays in the striker position.-Club career:...

    , Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

    ian football
    Football (soccer)
    Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

     player
  • mark Amin
    Mark Amin
    Mark Amin is an Iranian-American motion picture producer and distributor. He formed Vidmark Entertainment in the early 1980s which handled mainly video releases, and was a pioneer in home video entertainment. In 1985, Amin changed the name of Vidmark to Trimark Holdings Inc...

     vice president of lionsgate production companyhttp://www.lionsgate.com
  • Noach Emin Rafsanjani ibn Efron
  • Adel Ferdowsi poor

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