Avaj
Avaj (, also Romanized as Avej; also known as Aveh) is a city in, and the capital of, the Central District of Avaj County, Qazvin province, Iran, and serves as capital of the county.

At the 2006 census, its population was 3,695 in 1,042 households, when it was in the former Avaj District of Buin Zahra County. The following census in 2011 counted 5,609 people in 1,616 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 5,142 people in 1,621 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Avaj County.

Avaj lies  west of Tehran along Road 37, about 20 kilometres south by road from Abgarm. The city is in an agricultural area. Avaj was near the epicenter of the 2002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake and thus was severely affected by it, with roughly half the town being razed.

References 

Avaj County

Cities in Qazvin Province

Populated places in Avaj County