Palangabad Rural District (Persian: دهستان پلنگاباد) is in Palangabad District of Eshtehard County, Alborz province, Iran.

[3] At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population (as a part of the former Eshtehard District in Karaj County, Tehran province) was 6,613 people in 1,903 households.

[4] The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 1,218 in 374 households, by which time the county had been separated from the province in the establishment of Alborz province.

[3] The most populous of its 11 villages was Palangabad (now a city),[6][7] with 1,012 people.

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