"Maraga" redirects here. For the village in Azerbaijan, see Maraga. For the village in Khuzestan province, see Maraga.
"Maragh" redirects here. For the village in Hormozgan province, see Maragh. For the administrative division of East Azerbaijan province, see Maragheh County. For other places with a similar name, see Maragheh.
At the 2006 census, its population was 146,405 in 38,891 households.[7] The census in 2011 counted 162,275 people in 47,552 households.[8] The latest census in 2016 showed a further population increase to 175,255 people in 54,958 households.[4] Maragheh is on the bank of the river Sufi Chay. The population consists mostly of Iranian Azerbaijanis who are bilingual in Azerbaijani and Persian. It is 130 kilometres (81 mi) from Tabriz, the largest city in northwestern Iran.
^Maragheh can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3074025" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
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