West Azarbaijan Province
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West Azerbaijan Province استان آذربایجان غربی | |
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| Location of West Azerbaijan within Iran Location of West Azerbaijan within Iran | |
| Country | 23x15px Iran |
| Capital | Urmia |
| Counties | Template:Comma separated entries |
| Area | |
| • Total | Template:Infobox settlement/metric |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 2,949,426 |
| • Density | Template:Infobox settlement/metric |
| Time zone | UTC+03:30 (IRST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+04:30 (IRST) |
| Main language(s) | Persian (official) local languages: Azerbaijani[1][2][3][4] Kurdish[5] Armenian Assyrian[6][7] . |
West Azarbaijan or West Azerbaijan (Persian: آذربایجان غربی Āzarbāijān-e Gharbī; Kurdish: Azerbaycanî Rojawa; Azeri: Qərbi Azərbaycan) is one of the 30 provinces of Iran.
The province of West Azarbaijan covers an area of 39,487 km² (or 43,660 km² including Lake Urmia). The capital city of the province is Urmia.
References
- ↑ "Geography: Turkic-speaking Groups" Iran: A Country Study, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, (2008)
- ↑ Minahan, James (2002) Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: S-Z (Volume 4 of Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups Around the World) Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Connecticut, page 1765, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".
- ↑ Price, Glanville (editor) (2000) Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, England, page 21, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".
- ↑ Shaffer, Brenda (2002) Borders and brethren: Iran and the challenge of Azerbaijani identity, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, page 1, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".
- ↑ McLachlan, Keith Stanley (1994) The Boundaries of Modern Iran UCL Press, London, page 55, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".
- ↑ Khanam, R. (2005) Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia: A-I (Volume 1) Global Vision Publishing, Delhi, India, page 69, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".
- ↑ Anderson, Bridget et al. (1997) World Directory of Minorities (2nd edition) Minority Rights Group International, London, page 338, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".
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