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{{Infobox settlement
| name = West Azerbaijan Province
| native_name = {{lang-langx|fa|استان آذربایجان غربی}}
| native_name_lang = fa<!-- ISO 639-2 code e.g. "fa" for Persian -->
| settlement_type = [[Provinces of Iran|Province]]
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| leader_party =
| leader_title = [[List of current Iran governors-general|Governor-general]]
| leader_name = Mohammad-Sadegh[[Reza MotamedianRahmani]]
| leader_title1 =
| leader_title2 = Representative of the [[Supreme Leader of Iran|Supreme Leader]]
| leader_name2 = [[Seyed Mehdi Ghoreishi]]
| unit_pref = Metric<!-- or US or UK -->
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'''West Azerbaijan province''' ({{lang-langx|fa|استان آذربایجان غربی}}){{efn|Also [[romanize]]d as '''Āzarbāyjān-e Gharbī'''; {{lang-langx|ku|پارێزگای ئورمیە}}, romanized as '''Parêzgeha Urmiyê''';<ref>{{cite news |title=کوردستان میدیا: دۆخی ئاسەوارە مێژووییەکانی پارێزگای ئورمیە بە هۆی دابین نەکردنی بوودجە و کەمتەرخەمی بەرپرسانی رێژیم زۆر نالەبارە و ئەگەری لە ناو چوونیان و فەوتانیان هەیە. |url=https://kurdistanmedia.com/so/news/پارێزگای-ورمیە/-دۆخی-قەیراناویی-اسەوارە-مێژووییەکان |access-date=21 March 2020 |work=Kurdistan Media |language=ku}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Erdhejê parêzgeha Urmiyê hejand |url=https://kurdistanmedia.com/ku/news/erdheje-parezgeha-urmiye-hejand |access-date=21 March 2020 |work=KurdistanMedia |language=ku}}</ref> {{lang-langx|az|غربی آذربایجان اوستانی|italic=no}}}} is one of the 31 [[provinces of Iran|provinces]] of [[Iran]], whose capital and largest city is [[Urmia]].<ref name="West Azerbaijan Province Structure">{{cite report|title=Approval of the organization and chain of citizenship of the elements and units of the national divisions of West Azerbaijan province, centered in the city of Urmia|language=fa|website=lamtakam.com|via=Lam ta Kam|url=https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/113037|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231220192713/https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/113037|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Defense Political Commission of the Government Council|last=Habibi|first=Hassan|orig-date=Approved 21 June 1369|date=c. 2023|id=Notification 82808/T137|archive-date=20 December 2023|access-date=20 December 2023}}</ref>
 
It is in the [[Azerbaijan (Iran)|northwest]] of the country, bordered by [[Turkey]] ([[Ağrı Province|Ağrı]], [[Hakkâri Province|Hakkâri]], [[Iğdır Province|Iğdır]] and [[Van Province]]s), [[Iraq]] ([[Erbil Governorate|Erbil]] and [[Sulaymaniyah Governorate]]s) and [[Azerbaijan]]'s [[Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic]], as well as the Iranian provinces of [[East Azerbaijan province|East Azerbaijan]], [[Zanjan province|Zanjan]], and [[Kurdistan province|Kurdistan]]. West Azerbaijan province is part of [[Regions of Iran|Region]] [[Region 3, Iran|3]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=22 June 2014|title= همشهری آنلاین-استان‌های کشور به ۵ منطقه تقسیم شدند (Provinces were divided into 5 regions)|language=fa|newspaper=Hamshahri Online|url=http://www.hamshahrionline.ir/details/263382/Iran/-provinces|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140623191332/http://www.hamshahrionline.ir/details/263382/Iran/-provinces|archive-date=23 June 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> It is separated from [[Armenia]] by Turkey's short border with the [[Azerbaijan Republic]]. The province covers an area of 39,487&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, or 43,660&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> including [[Lake Urmia]].
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