Provinces and Cities
According to the population census of 2006, the four provinces of East Azerbaijan (2006 pop. 3,603,456), West Azarbaijan (2006 pop. 2,873,459), Zanjan (2006 pop. 970,946), and Ardabil (2006 pop. 1,228,155) have a combined population of 7.9 million people.
Chief cities include Tabriz (the capital of East Azerbaijan), Urmia (the capital of West Azerbaijan), Zanjan (the capital of Zanjan Province), Ardabil (the capital of Ardabil), Maragheh, Marand, Mahabad, Piranshahr, and Khoy (Khvoy).
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“The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers’ hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)