List of countries and territories where Persian is an official language

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

Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan 

Uzbekistan, Iraq

Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States

Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Germany, Israel, United Kingdom, Sweden, Bahrain, Canada, Russia, Kuwait

Australia, Oman, France, Syria, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, China, India, Turkmenistan, Italy, Finland, Spain, Norway

The remaining countries

Official language
+ Countries where Persian is a de jure official language CountryRegionTotalpopulationPersian speakers L1 Total  Asia 83,783,94550,568,000 Total Persian dialects in Iran.~70,000,000  Asia 32,890,17116,650,000~30,000,000  Asia 9,313,8006,373,834https://web.archive.org/web/20130116004155/http://stat.tj/en/img/526b8592e834fcaaccec26a22965ea2b_1355502192.pdf~9,300,000 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." Europe 3,132,2682,010Tat, Muslim, Ethnologue, Retrieved 7 March 2021~2,100 Total    129٬020٬184  73٬593٬834  109,300,000 

Significant minority language

+ Countries where Persian is a significant minority language Country Region PopulationPersian speakers Population Percentage  Asia 34,412,3491,544,700−10,000,000Jonson, Lena (1976) Tajikistan in the New Central Asia, I.B.Tauris, , 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."4,8−30%  Asia 1,592,000100,000The Ajam of Manama14%  Asia1,500,125,250 2,000,000,0003%

References

List of countries
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