West Azerbaijan province

استان آذربایجان غربی
استان آذربایجان غربی
Province
	Location of West Azerbaijan within Iran
	Coordinates: 37°33′10″N 45°04′33″E / 37.5528°N 45.0759°ECoordinates: 37°33′10″N 45°04′33″E / 37.5528°N 45.0759°E
Country	Iran
Capital	Urmia
Counties	17
Area
• Total	37,437 km2 (14,455 sq mi)
Population (2005)
• Total	2,949,426
• Density	78.7837/km2 (204.0489/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+03:30 (IRST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+04:30 (IRST)
Main language(s)	Persian (official); local languages:; Azerbaijani ; Kurdish ; Armenian ; Assyrian;

West Azarbaijan or West Azerbaijan (Persian: آذربایجان غربی, Āzarbāijān-e Gharbī; Kurdish: Azerbaycanî Rojawa; Azerbaijani: 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. The majority of the population of the province consists of Azerbaijanis and Kurds with a smaller minority of Persians.

West Azerbaijan Province Media

The region of the modern province as Matiene, as opposed to Atropatene to the east
West Azerbaijan

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, ISBN 978-0-313-32384-3
↑ Price, Glanville (editor) (2000) Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, England, page 21, ISBN 978-0-631-22039-8
↑ Shaffer, Brenda (2002) Borders and brethren: Iran and the challenge of Azerbaijani identity, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, page 1, ISBN 978-0-262-69277-9
↑ McLachlan, Keith Stanley (1994) The Boundaries of Modern Iran UCL Press, London, page 55, ISBN 978-1-85728-125-5
↑ Khanam, R. (2005) Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia: A-I (Volume 1) Global Vision Publishing, Delhi, India, page 69, ISBN 81-8220-063-6
↑ Anderson, Bridget et al. (1997) World Directory of Minorities (2nd edition) Minority Rights Group International, London, page 338, ISBN 978-1-873194-36-2

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[countrystudies.us-1] "Geography: Turkic-speaking Groups" Iran: A Country Study, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, (2008)

[Encyclopedia_of_the_Stateless_Nations-2] 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, ISBN 978-0-313-32384-3

[3] Price, Glanville (editor) (2000) Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, England, page 21, ISBN 978-0-631-22039-8

[4] Shaffer, Brenda (2002) Borders and brethren: Iran and the challenge of Azerbaijani identity, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, page 1, ISBN 978-0-262-69277-9

[McLachlan-p55-5] McLachlan, Keith Stanley (1994) The Boundaries of Modern Iran UCL Press, London, page 55, ISBN 978-1-85728-125-5

[Khanam-1-69-6] Khanam, R. (2005) Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia: A-I (Volume 1) Global Vision Publishing, Delhi, India, page 69, ISBN 81-8220-063-6

[7] Anderson, Bridget et al. (1997) World Directory of Minorities (2nd edition) Minority Rights Group International, London, page 338, ISBN 978-1-873194-36-2

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