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Van Province is a region located in eastern Turkey, situated near the borders of Iran and Iraq. It is historically and culturally significant due to its strategic location and is home to Lake Van, Turkey's largest lake.
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- Instance of
- province of Turkey
- Part of
- Van Subregion
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Turkey
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Van
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 994436
- Area
- 20921
- Elevation
- 1726
- Shares border with
- West Azarbaijan Province
- Official website
- www.van.gov.tr
- Image
- Van districts.png
- Households
- 257819
- Life expectancy
- 78.01
- Dialing code
- 276
- Licence plate code
- 65
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- Commons category
- Van Province
- topic's main category
- Category:Van Province
- postal code
- 65000–65999
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Van Province
- native label
- Van ili
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Van Province
- social media followers
- 45246
- urban population
- 110653
- rural population
- 58949
- male population
- 506935
- annual number of weddings
- 7440
- female population
- 487501
- suicide rate
- 4.52
- total fertility rate
- 1.22
- mean age
- 25.53
- minimum temperature record
- -28.7
- maximum temperature record
- 37.5
- name in kana
- ヴァン
- water as percent of area
- 10.95
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Encyclopedic overview
Van Province (Turkish: Van ili, Kurdish: Parezgêha Wanê, Armenian: Վանի մարզ) is a province and metropolitan municipality in the Eastern Anatolian region of Turkey, between Lake Van and the Iranian border. Its area is 20,921 km, and its population is 1,128,749 (2022). Its adjacent provinces are Bitlis to the west, Siirt to the southwest, Şırnak and Hakkâri to the south, and Ağrı to the north. The capital of the province is the city of Van, with a population of 525,016 as of 2022. The second-largest city is Erciş, with 92,945 inhabitants in 2022. The province was part of ancient province of Vaspurakan and is considered to be one of the cradles of Armenian civilization. Before the Armenian genocide, Van Province was one of the six Armenian vilayets. A majority of the population of the province is Kurdish, and it is considered part of Turkish Kurdistan.
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