Shandiz Rural District (Persian: دهستان شانديز) is in Shandiz District of Torqabeh and Shandiz County,[a] Razavi Khorasan province, Iran.

[5] At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population (as a part of Torqabeh District of Mashhad County) was 15,431 in 4,132 households.

[4] The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 15,693 in 4,585 households.

The most populous of its 18 villages was Virani, with 4,698 people.

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