Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in

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. The city of Tehran (not to be confused with the larger, Tehran Metropolitan) had a population of approximately 8,293,140 in 2011 and the Tehran Province has a 12,183,391 population.

Population

Ethnic groups

Persians

According to a 2010 census conducted by the Sociology Department of

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in many districts of Tehran across various socio-economic classes in proportion to the population sizes of each district and socio-economic class, 63% of people in

were born in Tehran, 98% can speak the

Persian language Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and ...

, 75% identify themselves as ethnic

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, and 13% have some degree of proficiency in a

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Azerbaijanis

Azerbaijanis in Tehran also known as Turks in Tehran or Azeris in Tehran are

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ians of Azerbaijani ethnicity. Azerbaijanis comprise 25% of

's population and 20.3% – 25%"Chapter 2 - The Society and Its Environment: People and Languages: Turkic-speaking Groups: Azarbaijanis" in ''A Country Study: Iran''

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last accessed 19 November 2008 of Tehran Province's population.

Mazanderanis

Ethnic

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are the third-largest, comprising about 8.2% of the total population.فهرست نویسی پیش از انتشار کتابخانه ملی جمهوری اسلامی ایران * شماره کتابشناسی ملّی:۲۸۹۰۶۹۰ *عنوان و نام پدیدآورنده:طرح بررسی و سنجش شاخص‌های فرهنگ عمومی کشور (شاخص‌های غیرثبتی):گزارش‌های پیشرفت طرح‌ها وکلان شهرها/به سفارش شورای فرهنگ عمومی کشور؛ مدیر طرح و مسئول سیاست گذاری:منصور واعظی؛ اجرا:شرکت پژوهشگران خبره پارس

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