Urmia (Persian: ارومیه; Azerbaijani: Urmu اورمو or Urmiyə; Kurdish: Wirmê / Urmê; Syriac: ܐܘܪܡܝܐ); also Romanized as Oroumiyeh, Orūmīyeh and Urūmiyeh ; formerly, during the majority of the Pahlavi Dynasty called in Persian: رضائیه - Rezaeyeh, Rezā’īyeh, Rezâiyye, and Rizāiyeh) is a city in and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 577,307, in 153,570 families.