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

Countries where Persian is a de jure official language
CountryRegionTotal
population
Persian speakers
L1Total
 IranAsia83,783,945[1]50,568,000[2]~70,000,000[3]
 AfghanistanAsia32,890,171[4]16,650,000[5]~30,000,000[6]
 TajikistanAsia9,313,800[7]6,373,834[8]~9,300,000[3]
 Dagestan[9]Europe3,132,268[10]2,010[11]~2,100
Total129٬020٬18473٬593٬834109,300,000

Significant minority language

Countries where Persian is a significant minority language
CountryRegionPopulationPersian speakers
PopulationPercentage
 UzbekistanAsia34,412,349[12]1,544,700[13]−10,000,000[14][15][16]4,8−30%
 BahrainAsia1,592,000[17]100,000[18]14%[19]
 PakistanAsia1,500,125,2502,000,000,0003%

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