Editing Demographics of Iran (section)

===Emigration===
{{Main article|Iranian citizens abroad}}

The term "Iranian citizens abroad" or " [[Iranian diaspora|Iranian/Persian diaspora]]" refers to the [[Iranian peoples|Iranian people]] and their children born in [[Iran]] but living outside of Iran. Migrant Iranian workers abroad remitted less than two billion dollars home in 2006.<ref>[http://www.iran-daily.com/1386/2971/html/economy.htm Iran Daily – Domestic Economy – 10/22/07<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025021531/http://www.iran-daily.com/1386/2971/html/economy.htm |date=25 October 2007 }}</ref>

As of 2010, there are about four to five million [[Iranians (citizens of Iran)|Iranians]] living abroad, mostly in the United States, Canada, [[Europe]], [[Arab states of the Persian Gulf|Persian Gulf States]], [[Turkey]], Australia and the broader [[Middle East]].<ref name="migrationinformation.org"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/3/C65survey405A-8FE9-AAD51173BD66.html|title=Iran: Coping with the World's Highest Rate of Brain Drain|work=RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty}}{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> According to the 2000 Census and other independent surveys, there are an estimated 1 million [[Iranian-Americans]] living in the U.S., in particular, the [[Los Angeles]] area is estimated to be host to approximately 72,000 Iranians, earning the [[Westwood, Los Angeles, California|Westwood]] area of LA the nickname [[Tehrangeles]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/12/iran.elections.voting/ | publisher=CNN| title=Iranian-Americans cast ballots on Iran's future | access-date=1 May 2010 | date=16 June 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817071324/http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/12/iran.elections.voting/ | archive-date=17 August 2009 | url-status=live }}</ref> Other metropolises that have large Iranian populations include [[Dubai]] with 300,000 Iranians, [[Vancouver]], [[London]], [[Toronto]], [[San Francisco Bay Area]], [[Washington D.C.]], [[Buenos Aires]], [[Mexico City]], [[Stockholm]], [[Berlin]], [[Hamburg]] and [[Frankfurt]]. Their combined [[net worth]] is estimated to be $1.3&nbsp;trillion.<ref>[http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2781/html/economy.htm Iran Daily – Domestic Economy – 02/14/07<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306024755/http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2781/html/economy.htm |date=6 March 2007 }}</ref>

Note that this differs from the other [[Iranian peoples]] living in other areas of [[Greater Iran]], who are of related ethnolinguistical family, speaking languages belonging to the [[Iranian languages]] which is a branch of [[Indo-European languages]].