Neqab

Neqab is a city in the Central District of Joveyn County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is also the administrative center for Bala Joveyn Rural District.

At the 2006 census, its population was 12,022 in 3,087 households, when it was in the former Joveyn District of Sabzevar County). The following census in 2011 counted 13,614 people in 3,792 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Joveyn County, with Neqab as its capital. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 14,783 people in 4,443 households.