Malin Rural District

Malin Rural District is in the Central District of Bakharz County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran.

At the National Census of 2006, its population (as Bakharz Rural District of the former Bakharz District of Taybad County) was 16,077 in 3,640 households. There were 17,384 inhabitants in 4,424 households at the following census of 2011, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Bakharz County, and the rural district had been renamed Malin Rural District. At the most recent census of 2016, the population of the rural district was 18,160 in 5,000 households. The most populous of its 29 villages was Ostay, with 2,995 people.