Official statistics from 1997 (1375) — Hamadan provinces — Population and ethnicites — [1] accessed in March 12, 2006. Replaced with Archive link in Feb 22, 2010. According to the survey of 1997, the population of Hamadan province was 1,677,957[3]. Based on official statistics of 1997, the population of Hamadan county was 563444 peoples (with overwhelming majority living in Hamadan city). In Hamadan city, 80 % of the people identified their language as Persian, 12 % Azeri and 8 % Luri, Kurdish and Laki
