Shamkan (Persian: شامكان)[a] is a city in, and the capital of, Shamkan District of Sheshtamad County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran.

[4] It also serves as the administrative center for Shamkan Rural District.

[5] At the time of the 2006 National Census, Shamkan's population was 2,102 in 541 households, when it was a village in Shamkan Rural District of the former Sheshtamad District in Sabzevar County.

[7] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 1,882 people in 581 households.

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