List of countries and territories where Persian is an official language

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The following is a list of sovereign states that have Persian as an official language.

Persian Linguasphere.
Legend
  Official language
 :Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan
  More than 1,000,000 speakers
 :Uzbekistan, Iraq
  Between 500,000 - 1,000,000 speakers
 :Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States
  Between 100,000 - 500,000 speakers
 :Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Germany, Israel, United Kingdom, Sweden, Bahrain, Canada, Russia, Kuwait
  Between 25,000 - 100,000 speakers
 :Australia, Oman, France, Syria, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, China, India, Turkmenistan, Italy, Finland, Spain, Norway
  Fewer than 25,000 speakers / none
:The remaining countries

Official language[change | change source]

Countries where Persian is a de jure official language
Country Region Total
population 		Persian speakers
L1 Total
 Iran Asia 83,783,945[1] 50,568,000[2] ~70,000,000[3]
 Afghanistan Asia 32,890,171[4] 16,650,000[5] ~30,000,000[6]
 Tajikistan Asia 9,313,800[7] 6,373,834[8] ~9,300,000[3]
 Dagestan[9] Europe 3,132,268[10] 2,010[11] ~2,100
Total 129٬020٬184 73٬593٬834 109,300,000

Significant minority language[change | change source]

Countries where Persian is a significant minority language
Country Region Population Persian speakers
Population Percentage
 Uzbekistan Asia 34,412,349[12] 1,544,700[13]−10,000,000[14][15][16] 4,8−30%
 Bahrain Asia 1,592,000[17] 100,000[18] 14%[19]
 Pakistan Asia 1,500,125,250 2,000,000,000 3%

References[change | change source]

  1. ↑ "Statistical Center of Iran > Population help". www.amar.org.ir. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  2. ↑ "Persian, Iranian". Ethnologue. Retrieved 11 December 2018. Total Persian dialects in Iran.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Adult literacy rate, population 15+ years (both sexes, female, male)". UIS Data Centre. UNESCO. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  4. ↑ د هېواد د وګړو اټکل برآورد نفوس کشور1399 [Estimated Population of Afghanistan 2020-21] (PDF) (Report) (in Arabic and English). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "Afghanistan". Worldmeters. www.worldmeters.info. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
  6. ↑ Reinman, Suzanne L. (2010-09-21). "The World Factbook". Reference Reviews. 24 (7): 7–8. doi:10.1108/09504121011077057. ISSN 0950-4125.
  7. ↑ "Агентии омори назди Президенти Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон / Агентии омори назди Президенти Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон". www.stat.tj. Archived from the original on 13 December 2009. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130116004155/http://stat.tj/en/img/526b8592e834fcaaccec26a22965ea2b_1355502192.pdf
  9. ↑ Constitution of the Republic of Dagestan: Chapter I, Article 11: "The state languages of the Republic of Dagestan are Russian and the languages of the peoples of Dagestan."
  10. ↑ "Оценка численности постоянного населения по субъектам Российской Федерации". Главная::Федеральная служба государственной статистики. Retrieved 6 February 2021.[permanent dead link]
  11. ↑ Tat, Muslim, Ethnologue, Retrieved 7 March 2021
  12. ↑ "Statistika qo'mitasi — O'ZBEKISTON AHOLISI". stat.uz. Archived from the original on 20 January 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  13. ↑ "Statistika qo'mitasi - DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN". Archived from the original on 2018-08-22.
  14. ↑ Jonson, Lena (1976) Tajikistan in the New Central Asia, I.B.Tauris, ISBN 085771726X, p. 108: "According to official Uzbek statistics there are slightly over 1 million Tajiks in Uzbekistan or about 3% of the population. The unofficial figure is over 6 million Tajiks. They are concentrated in the Sukhandarya, Samarqand and Bukhara regions."
  15. ↑ Richard Foltz (1996). "The Tajiks of Uzbekistan". Central Asian Survey. 15 (2): 213–216. doi:10.1080/02634939608400946.
  16. ↑ Cornell, Svante E. (2000). "Uzbekistan: A Regional Player in Eurasian Geopolitics?". European Security. 9 (2): 115. doi:10.1080/09662830008407454. S2CID 154194469. Archived from the original on 5 May 2009.
  17. ↑ "Mid-Year Population Projections for the Kingdom of Bahrain - (2012 - 2032)" 2012 – 2032 إسقاطات منتصف العام لسكان مملكة البحرين (PDF) (in Arabic and English). Kingdom of Bahrain - Central informatics Organisation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2017.
  18. ↑ The Ajam of Manama
  19. ↑ "International History Blog: The Ajam of Manama". 30 October 2015.
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