West Azerbaijan Province
Persian: استان آذربایجان غربی | |
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![]() Location of West Azerbaijan province within Iran | |
Coordinates: 37°52′N 44°53′E / 37.867°N 44.883°E[1] | |
Country | Iran |
Region | Region 3 |
Capital | Urmia |
Counties | 20 |
Government | |
• Governor-general | Mohammad-Sadegh Motamedian |
• MPs of Assembly of Experts | Dirbaz, Ali Akbar Ghoreyshi & Mojtahed Shabestari |
• Representative of the Supreme Leader | Seyed Mehdi Ghoreishi |
Area | |
• Total | 37,437 km2 (14,455 sq mi) |
Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 3,265,219 |
• Density | 87/km2 (230/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+03:30 (IRST) |
Main language(s) | Persian (official) local languages: Armenian[3] Assyrian Neo-Aramaic[4] Azerbaijani[5] Kurdish[5] Lishán Didán[6] |
HDI (2017) | 0.758[7] high · 26th |
West Azerbaijan province (Persian: استان آذربایجان غربی)[a] is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, whose capital and largest city is Urmia.[10] It is in the northwest of the country, bordered by Turkey (Ağrı, Hakkâri, Iğdır and Van Provinces), Iraq (Erbil and Sulaymaniyah Governorates) and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, as well as the Iranian provinces of East Azerbaijan, Zanjan, and Kurdistan. West Azerbaijan province is part of Region 3.[11] It is separated from Armenia by Turkey's short border with the Azerbaijan Republic. The province covers an area of 39,487 km2, or 43,660 km2 including Lake Urmia.
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the province had a population of 2,831,779 people in 655,260 households.[12] The following census in 2011 counted 3,080,576 inhabitants in 822,152 households.[13] At the latest census in 2016, the population had increased to 3,265,219 in 935,956 households.[2]
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1956 | 721,136 | — |
1966 | 1,087,182 | +50.8% |
1986 | 1,971,677 | +81.4% |
2006 | 2,831,779 | +43.6% |
2011 | 3,080,576 | +8.8% |
2016 | 3,265,219 | +6.0% |
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