Van Province
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Van is a province in eastern Turkey, between Lake Van and the Iranian border. It is 20,927 km²[citation needed] in area and has a population of 877,524 (2000)[citation needed]. Kurds form the majority.[1]
Its adjacent provinces are Bitlis to the west, Siirt to the southwest, Şırnak and Hakkari to the south, and Agri to the north. The capital is Van. The province and the surrounding area is the home of famous Turkish Van cats.
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[edit] Districts
Van province is divided into 12 districts (capital district in bold):
[edit] History
In the 9th century BC, the Van area was the center of the Urartian kingdom. For centuries after that, the area was a major Armenian population center. After World War I Armenian population was forced to leave or "cleansed" (see Armenian Genocide).
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Van | Bahçesaray | Başkale | Çaldıran | Çatak | Edremit | Erciş | Gevaş | Gürpınar | Muradiye | Özalp | Saray |
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| Adana | Adıyaman | Afyonkarahisar | Ağrı | Aksaray | Amasya | Ankara | Antalya | Ardahan | Artvin | Aydın | Balıkesir | Bartın | Batman | Bayburt | Bilecik | Bingöl | Bitlis | Bolu | Burdur | Bursa | Çanakkale | Çankiri | Çorum | Denizli | Diyarbakır | Düzce | Edirne | Elazığ | Erzincan | Erzurum | Eskişehir | Gaziantep | Giresun | Gümüşhane | Hakkâri | Hatay | Iğdır | Isparta | Istanbul | Izmir | Kahramanmaraş | Karabük | Karaman | Kars | Kastamonu | Kayseri | Kilis | Kırıkkale | Kırklareli | Kırşehir | Kocaeli | Konya | Kütahya | Malatya | Manisa | Mardin | Mersin | Muğla | Muş | Nevşehir | Niğde | Ordu | Osmaniye | Rize | Sakarya | Samsun | Şanlıurfa | Siirt | Sinop | Şırnak | Sivas | Tekirdağ | Tokat | Trabzon | Tunceli | Uşak | Van | Yalova | Yozgat | Zonguldak | |
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