Margavar Rural District (Persian: دهستان مرگور)[3] is in Silvaneh District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.

[5] According to Harry P. Packard of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, the rural districts of Dasht, Margavar, and Targavar were destroyed by Turks and Kurds during the Assyrian genocide in events that gave rise to the Assyrian independence movement.

[6] Few Assyrians remain in Margavar and the district is mostly populated by Kurds.

[7] At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population was 34,862 in 6,012 households.

[9] The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 40,174 in 9,602 households.