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The Azerbaijani diaspora are the communities of Azerbaijanis living outside the places of their ethnic origin: Azerbaijan and the Iranian region of Azerbaijan.
According to Ethnologue, there were over 1 million Azerbaijani-speakers of the north dialect in southern Dagestan, Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan as of 1993.[1] Other sources, such as national censuses, confirm the presence of Azerbaijanis throughout the former Soviet Union. The Ethnologue figures are outdated in the case of Armenia, where the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has affected the population of Azerbaijanis.[2] Ethnologue further reports that an additional 1 million Iranian Azerbaijanis live outside Iran, but these figures most likely are a reference to the Iraqi Turkmen, a distinct though related Turkic people.[3] The number of Azerbaijanis around the world is estimated about 30-35 million people, only 9,961,396 of which are in Azerbaijan, and another 13 million in Iran[4][5][6][7][8]
- ^ Report for Azerbaijani, North, Ethnologue . Retrieved 9 June 2006.
- ^ Peace Talks at Key West between Armenia and Azerbaijan, US State Department, 3 April 2001. Retrieved 9 June 2006.
- ^ "Azerbaijani, South: A language of Iran" – Ethnologue report . Retrieved 7 June 2006.
- ^ "Iran". The World Factbook. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ "The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency". cia.gov. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Azerbaijan Population 2018 (Demographics, Maps, Graphs)". worldpopulationreview.com. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ "Azerbaijan". azerbaijan.az. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ^ Sela, Avraham (2002). The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East. Continuum. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-8264-1413-7.
30–35 million