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{{Short description|City in Mazandaran province, Iran}}
{{for multi|the administrative division of Mazandaran province|Galugah County|other places with the same name|Galugah (disambiguation){{!}}Galugah}}
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|subdivision_type1       = [[Provinces of Iran|Province]]
|subdivision_name1       = [[Mazandaran province|Mazandaran]]
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|subdivision_name2       = [[Galugah County|Galugah]]
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'''Galugah''' ({{langx|fa|گلوگاه}}){{efn|Also [[romanize]]d as '''Galūgāh'''<ref>{{GEOnet3|-3063312}}</ref>}} is a city in the [[Central District (Galugah County)|Central District]] of [[Galugah County]], [[Mazandaran province|Mazandaran]] province, [[Iran]], serving as capital of both the county and the district.<ref name="Galugah County Establishment">{{cite report|title=Divisional reforms in Mazandaran province|url=https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/125261|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018180535/https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/125261|lang=fa|website=rc.majlis.ir|via=Islamic Parliament Research Center|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Defense Political Commission of the Government Board|archive-date=18 October 2014|orig-date=Approved 27 December 1383|date=26 October 1393|id=Proposal 1.4.42.80331; Notification 25744/T32928K|last=Aref|first=Mohammad Reza|access-date=16 January 2024}}</ref> Galugah is on the northern slopes of the Alborz mountain chain, and because it is close to the Caspian Sea from the other side, its atmosphere is mainly humid and damp.{{cn|date=May 2023}}
==Demographics==
===Language===
The people of Galugah speak [[Mazanderani language|Mazandarani]]<ref>{{cite journal |jstor=4030997 |title=Māzandarān: Language and People |journal=Iran & the Caucasus |last=Borjian |first=Habib |volume= 8| issue =  2 |date=2004 |publisher=[[Brill Publishers|Brill]] |pages=289–291 |doi=10.1163/1573384043076045}}</ref> and  [[Azerbaijanis|Azerbaijani]] languages.<ref name="TURKIC LANGUAGES OF PERSIA: AN OVERVIEW">Encyclopædia Iranica :[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/turkic-languages-overview TURKIC LANGUAGES OF PERSIA: AN OVERVIEW]</ref>
===Population===
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 18,720 in 4,927 households.<ref name="2006 Mazandaran Province">{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): Mazandaran Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/02.xls|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920090640/http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/02.xls|format=Excel|archive-date=20 September 2011}}</ref> The following census in 2011 counted 19,625 people in 5,719 households.<ref name="2011 Mazandaran Province">{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): Mazandaran Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=irandataportal.syr.edu|via=Iran Data Portal, Syracuse University|url=https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Mazandaran.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119182058/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Mazandaran.xls|archive-date=19 January 2023|access-date=19 December 2022|format=Excel}}</ref> The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 21,352 people in 6,898 households.<ref name="2016 Mazandaran Province">{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Mazandaran Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_02.xlsx|access-date=19 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007110909/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_02.xlsx|format=Excel|archive-date=7 October 2021}}</ref>
==See also==
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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{{Mazandaran Province|state=collapsed}}
{{Galugah County|state=collapsed}}
[[Category:Cities in Mazandaran province]]
[[Category:Populated places in Galugah County]]
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