Urmia or Orumiyeh is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. In the Central District of Urmia County, it is capital of the province, the county, and the district.
Image: Uromia Iran,pareeke jangali panoramio
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People of Urmia awaiting the Shah, 1911
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 provinces of East Azerbaijan, Zanjan and Kurdistan. The Iranian province is part of Region 3. It is separated from Armenia by Turkey's short border with the Azerbaijan Republic.
The region of the modern province as Matiene, as opposed to Atropatene to the east