Iranian Kazakhs
Iranian Kazakhs live mainly in the Golestān Province in Northern Iran. According to ethnologue.org, however, there were 3000 Kazakhs living in Iran in 1982 in the city of Gorgan. The number of Iranian Kazakhs might have been slightly higher, because many of them returned to Kazakhstan after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, from where they had immigrated to Iran after the Bolshevik October Revolution (1917).
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 5,000 in the city of Gorgan, approx. 10,000 spread through the rest of the Iran | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Languages | |
| Persian Kazakh Russian | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Azerbaijanis, Turkmen, Turkic peoples |
Currently, the city of Gorgan contains 5000 ethnic Kazakhs, who speak Kazakh and Persian on varying levels.
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