At the 2006 census, its 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 latest census in 2016 showed a population of 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.[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 being razed.[8]
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