Urmia

Urmia (Azerbaijani: Urmu, Urmiyə, اورمیه; Persian: ارومیه‎; Aramaic: ܐܘܪܡܝܐ‎, Armenian: Ուրմիա) variously translitterated as Oroumiyeh, Orūmīyeh and Urūmiyeh, also formerly known (during the Pahlavi Dynasty, 1925–1979) as Rezaeyeh, Rezā’īyeh, Rezâiyye (Persian: رضائیه‎) is a city in and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2012 census, its population was 1,265,721 with 700,000 households.