Capital of Iran

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What is the Capital of Iran?

Tehran or Teheran (تهران), capital and largest city of Iran, and capital of Tehran province, is located in the northern part of the country.

Tehran is Iran’s administrative, economic, and cultural centre as well as the major industrial and transport centre of the region.

Currently, the city of Tehran has 22 districts, among which, districts 4, 5, 2, 15 and 14 have the highest population density.

According to the latest official statistics of the Statistics Organization of Iran, published in 2017, District 4 of Tehran, with a population of 919,001 people, had the highest population density.

After that, district 5 with 858,346 people, region 2 with 701,303 people and regions 15 and 14 with 641,279 people and 515,795 people, respectively, have the highest population density in the 22 regions of Tehran. Have allocated.

The latest population census conducted in 2017 showed that Tehran province has a population of 13,276,637 people, after which the officials of this province announced that the population of Tehran is increasing by an average of 250,000 people annually.

A review of the latest statistical data of the Statistics Organization of Iran shows that Tehran province with 16 cities, 43 towns and 1036 villages has reached a population of 145572 people in 2017. According to these statistics, the number of people over the age of 15 in Tehran province now reaches 10,614,537 people.

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A view to the north of capital of Iran, Tehran / Photo by Roozbeh Eslami

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What is the language of people in the capital of Iran?

The official and first language in Tehran is Persian. But in the old-Tehran people were talking Tehrani Accent, The Tehrani accent (Persian: لهجهٔ تهرانی‎), or Tehrani dialect (گویش تهرانی), is a dialect of Persian spoken in Tehran and the most common colloquial variant of the Western Persian. Compared to literary standard Persian, the Tehrani dialect lacks original Persian diphthongs and tends to fuse certain sounds.

The Tehrani accent should not be confused with the Old Tehrani dialect, which was a Northwestern Iranian dialect, belonging to the central group.

Ethnic groups and native languages in the Capital of Iran, Tehran

According to a 2010 census conducted by the Sociology Department of Tehran University in many districts of Tehran across various socio-economic classes in proportion to population sizes of each district and socio-economic class, 63% of people in Tehran were born in Tehran, 98% know Persian language, 75% identify themselves as ethnic Persian, and 13% have some degree of proficiency in a European language.

Azerbaijanis in Tehran also known as Turks in Tehran or Azeris in Tehran are Iranians of Azerbaijani ethnicity.

Azerbaijanis comprise 25% of Tehran’s population and 20.3% – 25% of Tehran Province’s population.

Ethnic Mazandarani are the third-largest, comprising about 17% of the total population.

The fourth largest ethnic group in Tehran in terms of population is Kurdish, which according to some statistics is between half to one and a half million people in Tehran province.

The trend of increasing the population of Tehran during the last century

Tehran became a metropolis from the beginning of the Pahlavi regime (around 1960’s) and during 40 years the population of this city increased tenfold and reached two million people in 1340.

Forty years later, between 1960 and 2000, Tehran had a population of seven million, and according to the census, the city’s population increased about fivefold between 1956 and 2006. This population growth in the cities around Tehran was much higher than in Tehran. In a way that the population growth of Tehran has decreased in recent decades and the population around it has increased.

According to the latest census conducted in 2016, while Tehran province constitutes only 8% of the country’s area, it has 6.16% of the country’s population, as well as 1.21% of the country’s urban population in They live in Tehran province, which indicates the high population density of the province, while only 9.3% of the country’s rural population lives in Tehran province, this statistic indicates a high percentage of urbanization in Tehran province.

Seven of the 40 most populous cities in the country belong to Tehran province. Of these seven cities, Rey, Islamshahr, Pakdasht, Shahriyar and Baharestan are located on the outskirts of Tehran and most of their population can be included in the population of Tehran.

The population of Tehran between the years 2010 to 2015 has grown by an average of 3.1 percent per year, while this population growth during the years 2006 to 2010 has been an average of 8.0 percent. The population of Tehran in 2016 was equal to 8,693,706 people.

Capital of Iran on the Map

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Location of Tehran on the map of Iran

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