West Azerbaijan Province
West Azerbaijan province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, whose capital and largest city is Urmia. It is in the northwest of the country, bordered by Turkey, Iraq and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, as well as the Iranian provinces of East Azerbaijan, Zanjan, and Kurdistan.- Type: State with 3,270,000 residents
- Description: province of Iran
- Also known as: “Āz̄arbāījān Gharbī”, “Azarbaijan occidentale”, “Azarbâyjân-e Bâxtari”, “Azarbayjan-e Gharbi”, “Āzarbāyjān-e Gharbi”, “Āz̄arbāyjān-e Gharbī”, “Āz̄ārbāyjān-e Gharbī”, “Āz̄ārbāyjān-e Ghārbī”, “Azerbaïdjan de l’ouest”, “Azerbaïdjan ouest”, “Azerbaijan occidental”, “Azerbaiján occidental”, “Azerbaijan occidentale”, “Azerbaijan-e-gharbi”, “Azerbaiyan occidental”, “Azerbaycanê Ğerbi”, “Batı Azerbeycan”, “Fourth Ostan”, “Kanlurang Azerbaijan”, “Länsi-Azerbaidžan”, “Ostān-e Āz̄arbāījān-e Bākhtarī”, “Ostān-e Āz̄arbāījān-e Gharbī”, “Ostān-e Āz̄arbāyjān-e Bākhtarī”, “Ostān-e Āz̄arbāyjān-e Gharbī”, “Ostān-e Chāhārom”, “provinca Zahodni Azerbajdžan”, “Provincia Azarbaidjanul de Vest”, “Provincia Azarbaijanul de vest”, “Qərbi Azərbaycan əyaləti”, “Rietumazerbaidžānas ostāns”, “Vakarinis Azerbaidžanas”, “Vakarų Azerbaidžanas”, “Västazerbajdzjan”, “Vest Aserbajdsjan”, “West Azarbaijan”, “West Azarbayejan”, “West Azarbayjan Ostan”, “West Azerbaijan”, “West Azerbaijan province”, “West Azerbijan”, “West-Azarbaijan”, “West-Āzarbāydschān”, “Westaserbaidschan”, “Western Azerbaijan”, “Wilayah Azarbaijan Barat”, “Zapadni Azerbajdžan”, “Устони Озарбойичони ғарби”, “Устони Озарбойичони ғарбӣ”, “Устони Озарбойҷони ғарбӣ”, “פרובינציית מערב אזרביג’אן”, “آ.غ”, “آذربایجان غربی”, “آذربیجان الغربية”, “آذربیجان الغربیة”, “آذربیجان الغربیه”, “ئازەربایجانی ڕۆژئاوا”, “ا.غ”, “اذربایجان غربی”, “اذربيجان غربي”, “ازربيجان غربى”, “استان اذربایجان غربی”, “پارێزگای ئازەربایجانی ڕۆژئاوا”, “پارێزگای کوردستانی باکووری”, “پارێزگای ورمێ”, “صوبہ آذربایجان غربی”, “غرب آذربيجان”, “محافظة آذربایجان غربي”, “पश्चिम आज़र्बैजान”, “पश्चिम आज़र्बैजान प्रांत”, “పశ్చిమ అజర్బైజాన్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”, “아자르바이잔 에가르비 주”, “아자르바이잔에가르비 주”, “西アゼルバイジャン”, “西アゼルバイジャン州”, and “西亚塞拜然省”
- Neighbors: Erbil Governorate, Nakhchivan, and Sulemania Governorate
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nushin and Khaneqah Sorkh.
West Azerbaijan Province
- Categories: province of Iran and locality
- Location: Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.7416° or 37° 44′ 30″ north
Longitude
45.0208° or 45° 1′ 15″ east
Population
3,270,000
Elevation
1,350 metres (4,429 feet)
Open location code
8H97P2RC+M8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“West Azerbaijan Province” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ምዕራብ አዛርባይጃን”
- Arabic: “أذربيجان الغربية”
- Arabic: “محافظة أذربيجان الغربية”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան Ադրբեջան”
- Asturian: “Azerbaixán Occidental”
- Avaric: “БакътӀерхьул Азарбижан”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Azərbaycan ostanı”
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko Azerbaijan”
- Belarusian: “Заходні Азербайджан”
- Belarusian: “Заходні Азэрбайджан”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম অজারবাইজন প্রদেশ”
- Breton: “Kornôg Azerbaidjan”
- Bulgarian: “Западен Азербайджан”
- Bulgarian: “Западен Азербейджан”
- Catalan: “Azerbaidjan Occidental”
- Catalan: “Azerbaidjan Oest”
- Cebuano: “Kasadpang Aserbayan”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ئازەربایجانی ڕۆژاوا”
- Chechen: “Малхбузен Азербайджан”
- Chinese: “西亞塞拜然省”
- Chinese: “西阿塞拜疆省”
- Crimean Tatar: “Ğarbiy Azerbaycan ostanı”
- Croatian: “Zapadni Azarbajdžan”
- Czech: “Západní Ázerbájdžán”
- Danish: “Vest-Aserbajdsjan”
- Dimli (individual language): “Azerbaycanê Rocawani”
- Dutch: “West-Azerbeidzjan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اذربيجان الغربيه”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ازربيجان الغربيه”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Azerbajĝano”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Okcidenta Azerbajĝano”
- Estonian: “Lääne-Aserbaidžaan”
- Estonian: “Lääne-Aserbaidžaani provints”
- Finnish: “Āzārbāyjān-e Gharbī”
- French: “Azerbaïdjan occidental”
- French: “Province d’Azerbaïdjan occidental”
- Galician: “Azerbaidján Occidental”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთი აზერბაიჯანი”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთი აზერბაიჯანის ოსტანი”
- German: “West-Aserbaidschan”
- Gilaki: “خۊرخۊسي آذربایجان ٚ اۊستان”
- Gilaki: “غربی آذربایجؤن”
- Greek: “Δυτικό Αζερμπαϊτζάν”
- Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમ અઝારબાઈજાન પ્રાંત”
- Hausa: “West Azerbaijan”
- Hebrew: “מערב אזרבייג’ן”
- Hindi: “पश्चिम अज़रबैजान प्रांत”
- Hindi: “पश्चिम अज़रबैजान”
- Hungarian: “Nyugat-Azerbajdzsán tartomány”
- Hungarian: “Nyugat-Azerbajdzsán”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Azarbaijan Barat”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Azerbaijan Barat”
- Italian: “Azerbaigian occidentale”
- Italian: “Azerbaigian Occidentale”
- Japanese: “西アーザルバーイジャーン”
- Japanese: “西アーザルバーイジャーン州”
- Javanese: “Azarbaijan Kulon”
- Kannada: “ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಅಜರ್ಬೈಜಾನ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kashmiri: “مغربی آذربایجان صوبہٕ”
- Kazakh: “Батыс Әзербайжан”
- Kazakh: “Батыс Әзірбайжан”
- Kirghiz: “Батыш Азербайжан”
- Korean: “서아제르바이잔주”
- Kurdish: “Azerbaycana Rojava”
- Kurdish: “ئازەربایجانا رۆژاڤا”
- Latin: “Atropatene Occidentalis”
- Latvian: “Rietumazerbaidžāna”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Azerbaidžano provincija”
- Macedonian: “Западен Азербејџан”
- Malagasy: “Faritanin‘ i Azerbaijan-e-Gharbi”
- Malagasy: “Faritanin’ i Azerbaijan-e-Gharbi”
- Malay: “Azarbaijan Barat”
- Malay: “Wilayah Azerbaijan Barat”
- Malayalam: “പശ്ചിമ അസർബൈജാൻ പ്രവിശ്യ”
- Maori: “Atepaihānia-ki-te-uru Porowini”
- Marathi: “पश्चिम अझरबैजान प्रांत”
- Mazanderani: “غربی آذربایجان اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sai Azerbaijan Séng”
- Newari: “पश्चिम अजरबइजान प्रान्त”
- Northern Frisian: “Waast-Aserbaidschaan”
- Northern Luri: “آستوٙن آذأربایئجان أفتونئشین”
- Northern Sami: “Oarje-Azerbaižana provinsa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vest-Aserbajdsjan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vest-Aserbajdsjan”
- Norwegian: “Vest-Aserbajdsjan”
- Oromo: “Azarbaijan Lixa”
- Ossetian: “Ныгуылæн Азербайджан”
- Panjabi: “ਪੱਛਮੀ ਅਜ਼ਰਬਾਈਜ਼ਾਨ”
- Persian: “آذَربايجان غَربی”
- Persian: “اُستانِ آذَربايجانِ باختَری”
- Persian: “اُستانِ آذَربايجانِ غَربی”
- Persian: “استان آذربایجان غربی”
- Persian: “اُستانِ چاهارُم”
- Polish: “Azerbejdżan Zachodni”
- Portuguese: “Azerbaijão Ocidental”
- Pushto: “لویدیځ آذربایجان ولایت”
- Pushto: “مغربي ازربايجان”
- Romanian: “Provincia Azerbaidjanul de Vest”
- Russian: “Западный Азербайджан”
- Scots: “Wast Azerbaijan Province”
- Serbian: “Pokrajina Zapadni Azerbejdžan”
- Serbian: “Западни Азербејџан”
- Serbian: “Покрајина Западни Азербејџан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zapadni Azarbajdžan”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර අසර්බජාන් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Zahodni Azerbajdžan”
- Somali: “Azarbayjan Galbeed”
- South Azerbaijani: “غربی آذربایجان اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Azerbaiyán Occidental”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Azerbaiyán Occidental”
- Swahili: “Azarbayjan Magharibi”
- Swedish: “Västazarbaijan”
- Tagalog: “Kanlurang Aserbayan”
- Tajik: “Ustoni Ozarbojconi ƣarbī”
- Tajik: “Устони Озарбойчони ғарбӣ”
- Tajik: “Устони Озарбойҷони Ғарбӣ”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு அசர்பைசான் மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு அசார்பைஜான் மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Көнбатыш Азәрбайҗан”
- Telugu: “పశ్చిమ అజర్బైజాన్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอาเซอร์ไบจานตะวันตก”
- Turkish: “Batı Azerbaycan Eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Batı Azerbaycan”
- Turkmen: “Günbatar Azerbaýjan Welaýaty”
- Turkmen: “Günbatar Azerbaýjan”
- Ukrainian: “Західний Азербайджан”
- Urdu: “صوبہ آذربائیجان غربی”
- Uzbek: “Gʻarbiy Ozarbayjon ustoni”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Azerbaijan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Katundan nga Azarbaijan”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ لہندا آذربائیجان”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ لیندا آزربائ جان”
- Wu Chinese: “西阿塞拜疆省”
- Yue Chinese: “西亞塞拜疆省”
- “West Azarbaijan Province”
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Places to explore: Asgarabad-e Kuh and Lulham.
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