West Azarbaijan or West Azerbaijan is a province of Iran. The province of West Azarbaijan has an area of 39,487 km², or 43,660 km² containing Lake Urmia. In 2006 the province had a population of 3,015,361. The account habitation of the province is Urmia. The province is in augmentation the procedure of Tepe Hajji Firuz, placement of more of the world’s soonest positioned sightings of wine production. Gooy Teppe is another noteworthy placement, where a metallic plaque a couple from 800 BCE was examined that represents a prediction from the epic of Gilgamesh.

West Azerbaijan, the province of Iran, deduces from Atropates, a Iranian satrap of Media on the floor heading down the Achaemenid administrators, every one any person who afterwards was reinstated as the satrap of Media on the floor heading down Alexander of Macedonia. The first etymology of this label is studied to have its lineages in the very older Zoroastrianism, namely, in Avestan Frawardin Yasht ("Hymn to the Guardian Angels"), there is a referring of: aterepatahe ashaonô fravashîm ýazamaide, which literally transforms from Old Persian. Atropates put accent on through the environs of present-day Iranian Azerbaijan.