Karat Rural District (Persian: دهستان كرات) is in the Central District of Taybad County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran.

[4] At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population was 14,411 in 2,977 households.

[6] The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 17,955 in 4,624 households.

The most populous of its 21 villages was Poshteh, with 3,028 people.

This Taybad County location article is a stub.