- Ethnic Groups & Population
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According
to the latest census, the population of Iran was a little
more than 60 million of which about 37 million were urban
dwellers and about 23 million villagers and a small percentage
are nomad tribes. Iran is situated on – The
way of Central Asia and Turkey as well as western countries
and different ethnic groups live over there. Among them Farsis
, Kurds , Lors , Balooches , Bakhtiaris , Azari , Turks ,
Taleshs , Turkamans , Ghashghais and Arabs may be pointed
out . Smaller ethnic groups also live in Iran. Turkamans ,
who live in Turkaman Sahara and north of Khorasan , are different
from other Iranian ethnic group’s appearance, language ,and
cultural points of view . Ghashghais , who have Turkish origin
live in central part of Iran. Arab clans mostly live in Khuzestan
and are scattered along the coastlines of the persian Gulf.
Some groups of colored people, who are the descendants of
slave trade with Zanzibar , are scattered in southern provinces
of Iran. The existing Indian minority in the south of Iran
is also the posterity of Indian traders in past times.
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Iran is the birthplace
of Zoroaster , one of the oldest prophets of the world and
founder of Zoroastrian religion. The official religion of
Iran is Islam (Shiite) and about 99.56% of people are Muslims,
other religions of Zoroastrian, Christian and Jewish are recognized
officially and their disciples have equal political, social
and economic rights like Muslims.
Cultural
richness of Iran in different arenas like different eastern
art, literature, and Gnosticism has global reputation. Iranian
myth fictions, philosophy, poetry, music, folklore, handicrafts,
architecture, and decorative arts are important parts of human
thoughts.
Iran,
due to its historical background and sustainable social and
cultural evolution has a lot of diverse worth-seeing sites,
which satisfy all kinds of tourists with different tastes.
Every tourist, whatever his incentive, may find many spectacular
places based on his taste. It should not be forgotten that
the best way for recognition of every country and its people
is direct contact with them. Iranians are famous for their
hospitality, compassion, and generosity .The ancient Iranian
culture, which is reflected in historical and architectural
heritage, has brought about many worth seeing-places. The
culture of today’s Iran is a perfect aggregate of near and
far past of this territory and everybody can satisfy his intellectual
and aesthetic needs according to his taste through visiting
this wide and rich country. The existing historical monuments
in Persepolis , Passargad , Susa , Hamedan , Kermanshah ,
Isfahan , Firoozabad , Syraf and many other ancient centers
of Iranian civilization, are the incentives enough for visiting
this country . In province of Semnan is located in the east
of Khorasan province having different desert and mountain
slope nature which in past time, this province has been passed
by SILK Road and many monuments belonging to that time have
remained today.
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