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Many states have large Iranian-American communities. California alone has an estimated 200,000 residents with Iranian ancestry, over 40% of the estimated US total:
The majority of Chicago's Iranian community, estimated at the end of the twentieth century between 6,000 and 10,000 in the city and up to 30,000 in the metropolitan area, arrived in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.
In 2006 there were perhaps as many as 25,000 Chicago area Iranians, including about 6,000 in the Chicago city limits. Iranian ethnic groups represented include Persians, Kurds, Turks, Azeris , and Lurs .
Iranian Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are citizens or nationals of the United States who are of Iranian ancestry. Most Iranian Americans arrived in the United States after 1979, as a result of the Iranian Revolution and the fall of the Persian monarchy, with over 40% settling in California, specifically Los Angeles.
Explore the map and tables to see where people of this ethnic group have settled in the United States by county and state. Ethnic and ancestry information for these tables includes people of partial descent and is based on self identification.
Click here to view an interactive map showing where migrants from Iran and other countries have settled worldwide. Within the United States, more than half of all Iranian immigrants live in California and more than one-third live in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
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