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Ethnicities of Iran on a Map

Given a map, can you guess the dominant ethnic groups that inhabit various regions in Iran?
Striped areas indicate regions with significant populations of multiple ethnicites; grey areas indicated sparsely populated regions
Population numbers are estimates and averages
Thanks to Jiaozira for map-making advice!
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JWatson24
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Last updated: May 28, 2021
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Population
Ethnicity
12-18.5 m
Azeri
1.6 m
Arab
120 k
Armenian
2 m
Baloch
100 k
Georgian
3-4 m
Gilak
8.1 m
Kurd
5 m
Lur
Population
Ethnicity
3-4 m
Mazanderani
>100 k
Pashtun
49.3 m
Persian
300-800 k
Qashqai
300 k
Tat
500 k- 1 m
Talysh
790 k
Turkmen
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17 Comments
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Level 71
May 27, 2021
If you enjoy this quiz, please check back for more ethnic map quizzes in the future!
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Level 85
May 26, 2021
This was really fun. Could love to see these sorts of quizzes in countries or even regions with many different ethnicities.
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Level 71
May 26, 2021
Thanks! I have quite a few planned. I decided to start with Iran because it's a bit simpler, but I also hope to do more complex places like South Asia and China in the future, so if you liked this, make sure to check back in the future!
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Level 59
May 27, 2021
Wow... This Map is terrific. It looks amazing but is certainly difficult at least for me. I only got Kurds, Azeri, Baloch and Armenian. Though I wonder why did you choose Iran and not a popular country like Mexico or Brazil Maybe.
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Level 71
May 27, 2021
As I said, Iran was a bit easier in terms of drawing. I hope to do more "popular" countries in the future :) Unfortunately, I don't know if I'll be able to do Mexico or Brazil, because there's so much ethnic diversity/intermarriage in those places that most places don't have very well defined ethnicities (not to say that's a bad thing, it just makes it difficult for me to make a quiz on them). I think I might be able to make a quiz on the US though, along with China, South Asia (I'd like to see if I can get all of South Asia inn one quiz!), and possibly a few other well-known places.
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Level 75
May 29, 2021
Very well done
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Level 55
Jun 4, 2021
Would you change the color of Azri to another color as it looks that i had guessed it
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Level 71
Jun 4, 2021
I think it's fine personally. I mean, the shade of brown I chose for Azeris is very different from the light green that comes up when you guess something correctly. Unless you were talking about Armenians? I could see where you could get confused with Armenians since that one is a kind of neon green, but I still think it's different enough that it shouldn't cause a problem. If other people have trouble with this though, I'll consider changing it.
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Level 71
Jun 4, 2021
Thanks to whoever spotlighted this!
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Level 72
Jul 7, 2022
Hi JWatson! Some months ago you had suggested me to make an SVG similar to Jiaozira's On a Map series. I made one just a couple of days ago and I'm super proud of how it turned out (even though the only thing I did was adding a little bit of CSS). I would love to know what you think of it, here! :)
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Level 70
Oct 21, 2022
AMAZING quiz! Nominated!
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Level 70
Oct 21, 2022
Please make more!
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Level 71
Oct 21, 2022
Thanks! I don't have a lot of time to make SVG quizzes any more, and at any rate, I'm not as interested in this subject as I once was. That being said, if you enjoyed this and haven't taken my other SVG quizzes, I'd encourage you to try some!
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Level 28
Nov 19, 2022
loved it but should have put saveh (markazi) as azeri/Persian
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Level 71
Nov 19, 2022
Did I not? It looks to me like Saveh falls in the striped region of Azeri/Persian already, but maybe I'm wrong.
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Level 73
Nov 4, 2023
Great quizz! consider Lor as a different spelling for Lur
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Level 63
Sep 4, 2025
could the table be ordered by #?