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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.
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Persian Linguasphere
Legend
Official language
: Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan
More than 1,000,000 speakers
: Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Russia, United States
Between 500,000–1,000,000 speakers
: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Iraq
Between 100,000–500,000 speakers
: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Australia, Israel, United Kingdom, Sweden, Bahrain, India, Canada, Kuwait
Between 25,000–100,000 speakers
: Oman, France, Syria, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Armenia, Austria, China, Turkmenistan, Italy, Finland, Spain, Norway
Fewer than 25,000 speakers / none
: Other countries