Suku Azerbaijan (bahasa Azerbaijan:Azərbaycanlılarcode: az is deprecated , آذربایجانلیلارcode: az is deprecated ) adalah sebuah suku bangsa Turkik yang terutama mendiami daerah Azerbaijan di Iran barat laut dan Republik Azerbaijan. Mayoritas dari mereka beragama Islam Syiah.[44] Mereka merupakan suku bangsa terbesar di Republik Azerbaijan dan suku bangsa terbesar kedua di Iran dan Georgia.[47] Mereka menuturkan bahasa Azerbaijan, yang tergolong ke dalam cabang Oghuz dari rumpun bahasa Turkik.
↑"Iran". Ethnologue. Diarsipkan dari versi aslinya tanggal 4 September 2019. Diakses tanggal 26 October 2018. Ethnic population: 16,700,000 (2019)
↑Elling, Rasmus Christian (18 February 2013). Minorities in Iran: Nationalism and Ethnicity after Khomeini. Springer. hlm.28. ISBN978-1-137-04780-9. CIA and Library of Congress estimates range from 16 percent to 24 percent—that is, 12–18 million people if we employ the latest total figure for Iran's population (77.8 million).
↑Gheissari, Ali (2 April 2009). Contemporary Iran: Economy, Society, Politics. Oxford University Press. hlm.300. ISBN978-0-19-988860-3. As of 2003, the ethnic classifications are estimated as: [...] Azeri (24 percent)
↑Bani-Shoraka, Helena (1 July 2009). "Cross-generational bilingual strategies among Azerbaijanis in Tehran". International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2009 (198): 106. doi:10.1515/IJSL.2009.029. ISSN1613-3668. S2CID144993160. The latest figures estimate the Azerbaijani population at 24% of Iran's 70 million inhabitants (NVI 2003/2004: 301). This means that there are between 15 and 20 million Azerbaijanis in Iran.
↑Moaddel, Mansoor; Karabenick, Stuart A. (4 June 2013). Religious Fundamentalism in the Middle East: A Cross-National, Inter-Faith, and Inter-Ethnic Analysis. Brill. hlm.101. The Azeris have a mixed heritage of Iranic, Caucasian, and Turkic elements(...) Between 16 to 23 million Azeris live in Iran.
↑Eschment, Beate; von Löwis, Sabine, ed. (18 August 2022). Post-Soviet Borders: A Kaleidoscope of Shifting Lives and Lands. Taylor & Francis. hlm.31. Irrespective of the large Azerbaijani population in Iran (about 20 million, compared to 7 million in Azerbaijan)(...)
↑"Итоги переписи". 2010 census. Russian Federation State Statistics Service. 2012. Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 24 April 2012. Diakses tanggal 24 January 2015.
↑"5.01.00.03 Национальный состав населения"(PDF) (dalam bahasa Rusia). National Statistical Committee of Kyrgyz Republic. 2011. Diarsipkan dari asli(PDF) tanggal 19 February 2012. Diakses tanggal 17 January 2012.
↑"Population Census 2009"(PDF). National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus. Diarsipkan dari asli(PDF) tanggal 18 January 2012. Diakses tanggal 17 April 2013.
↑Azerbaijan country briefDiarsipkan 18 June 2019 di Wayback Machine.. NB According to the 2016 census, 1,036 people living in Australia identified themselves as of Azeri ancestry. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
↑"Population Census of 2011". Statistics Estonia. Diarsipkan dari versi aslinya tanggal 11 November 2018. Diakses tanggal 10 November 2018. Select "Azerbaijani" under "Ethnic nationality".
↑"2020-03-09". ssb.no. 9 March 2020. Diarsipkan dari versi aslinya tanggal 17 November 2020. Diakses tanggal 3 January 2021.
↑Ismail Zardabli. Ethnic and political history of Azerbaijan. Rossendale Books. 2018. p.35 "... the ancestors of Azerbaijanis and Turkmens are the tribes that lived in these territories."
↑Harcave, Sidney (1968). Russia: A History: Sixth Edition. Lippincott. hlm.267.
↑Mojtahed-Zadeh, Pirouz (2007). Boundary Politics and International Boundaries of Iran: A Study of the Origin, Evolution, and Implications of the Boundaries of Modern Iran with Its 15 Neighbors in the Middle East by a Number of Renowned Experts in the Field. Universal. hlm.372. ISBN978-1-58112-933-5.