Interesting map of Iran

[Ram]

Lol, it would be senseless to rename Hormozgan province "Arabistan" because most inhabitants of that area are not even Arabs.
200,000 Arabs in a total 1.5 million population.
Arabs live mainly on the coastal cities, the interior villages are inhabited by Persians...

And Qashqaistan is more laughable...
This is a map of Larestan county (southern Fars province)
http://www.sums.ac.ir/icarusplus/export/sites/s/shabakeh/larestan/image/larestan.jpg
Most of these villages are mixed Shia and Sunni Persians and only a few minor Qashqai villages.

Plus the Qashqai population in the entirety of Iran is 1.7 million, and Fars province total population is 4.5 million, so they are not a majority in any province.

A very poorly researched map.

[RawandKurdistani]

Lol, it would be senseless to rename Hormozgan province "Arabistan" because most inhabitants of that area are not even Arabs.
200,000 Arabs in a total 1.5 million population.
Arabs live mainly on the coastal cities, the interior villages are inhabited by Persians...

And Qashqaistan is more laughable...
This is a map of Larestan county (southern Fars province)
http://www.sums.ac.ir/icarusplus/export/sites/s/shabakeh/larestan/image/larestan.jpg
Most of these villages are mixed Shia and Sunni Persians and only a few minor Qashqai villages.

Plus the Qashqai population in the entirety of Iran is 1.7 million, and Fars province total population is 4.5 million, so they are not a majority in any province.

A very poorly researched map.

Well this is a map of how the turks want it, not necessarily a realistic map.

[RawandKurdistani]

hamadan is lost. we cant claim a city in which we are absolutely minority, even if it was historically kurdish.

Capital of the Medes.

The city means a lot to us, and thats why i have a hard time to let it go.

[Ram]

Here are some helpful and accurate maps IMO, by Mehrdad Izady, that take into account ethnic and religious minorities.

Linguistic map
http://img-eburg.fotki.yandex.ru/get/46 ... 29d4c_orig

Religious composition map
http://www.blog.benjieboo.co.uk/wp-cont ... ion_lg.jpg

[Ram]

In the ethnolinguistic map I posted, there seems to be a small Kurdish enclave in Balochistan. I wonder how that happened?

[Zert]

In the ethnolinguistic map I posted, there seems to be a small Kurdish enclave in Balochistan. I wonder how that happened?

From Encyclopaedia Iranica:
Baluchistan. There are Kurds in northeastern Persian Baluchistan, who might be the descendants of tribesmen who accompanied the luckless Loṭf-ʿAli Khan Zand on his desperate flight to Bam in 1794. Until the 1880s, they were dominant in Ḵāš, and their leader was known as the Sardār of the Sarḥad (Sykes, pp. 106, 107, 131; see also Bestor). Today, they are widely scattered, some of them living on the southern slopes of the Kuh-e Taftān, others dwelling around Magas (today, Zābol); and still others are settled in Sistān (Afšār Sistāni, p. 918). Hosayn-ʿAli Razmārā mentions eight villages in the district of Bampošt that are inhabited by Baluchi-speaking Zand tribesmen (VIII, pp. 187, 248, 313, 315, 322, 372, 384). These probably moved to Baluchistan at the same time as the Kurds of Ḵāš.

[burnsss]

Here are some helpful and accurate maps IMO, by Mehrdad Izady, that take into account ethnic and religious minorities.

Linguistic map
http://img-eburg.fotki.yandex.ru/get/46 ... 29d4c_orig

Religious composition map
http://www.blog.benjieboo.co.uk/wp-cont ... ion_lg.jpg

Why should we trust that guy? The map is maybe mostly accurate but his agenda might make him lowering the kurdish population. for instance if the kurds make up 70-80 % in one area he make it look like kurds occupy a small part, like in Syria. he has dotted the kurds scattered, when kurds make up majority in most northern and north east syria. You just cant trust persian/turks and arabs when it comes to kurds.

[Kurdistano]

Lol, it would be senseless to rename Hormozgan province "Arabistan" because most inhabitants of that area are not even Arabs.
200,000 Arabs in a total 1.5 million population.
Arabs live mainly on the coastal cities, the interior villages are inhabited by Persians...

And Qashqaistan is more laughable...
This is a map of Larestan county (southern Fars province)
http://www.sums.ac.ir/icarusplus/export/sites/s/shabakeh/larestan/image/larestan.jpg
Most of these villages are mixed Shia and Sunni Persians and only a few minor Qashqai villages.

Plus the Qashqai population in the entirety of Iran is 1.7 million, and Fars province total population is 4.5 million, so they are not a majority in any province.

A very poorly researched map.

Its not hard to realize that this map is based on pure ridiculous Turkic nationalism which as always is FAR from realism.

[Kurdistano]

Here are some helpful and accurate maps IMO, by Mehrdad Izady, that take into account ethnic and religious minorities.

Linguistic map
http://img-eburg.fotki.yandex.ru/get/46 ... 29d4c_orig

Religious composition map
http://www.blog.benjieboo.co.uk/wp-cont ... ion_lg.jpg

Why should we trust that guy? The map is maybe mostly accurate but his agenda might make him lowering the kurdish population. for instance if the kurds make up 70-80 % in one area he make it look like kurds occupy a small part, like in Syria. he has dotted the kurds scattered, when kurds make up majority in most northern and north east syria. You just cant trust persian/turks and arabs when it comes to kurds.

Please read properly before posting the map is made by Mehrdad Izady and since Mehrdad Izady is an East-Southern Kurd he cant know the exact demography of Northern and Western Kurds. But the Eastern and Southern Kurdish parts are more accurate.