Place:Hakkari, Turkey

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NameHakkari
Alt namesHakkarisource: Wikipedia
Hakkari Ilisource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Hakkari Vilayetisource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Hakkâṙisource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) V, 626
Hakkâṙi provincesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeProvince
Coordinates37.5°N 43.75°E
Located inTurkey
See alsoDoğu Anadolu,removed name of Region
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Beyṫişebap
Hakkâri
Semdinli
Uludere
Çukurca
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Hakkâri Province, is a province in the southeast of Turkey. The administrative centre is the city of Hakkâri. The province covers an area of 7,121 km² and had a population of 286,470 in 2018. The province was created in 1936 out of Van Province and borders Şırnak Province to the west, Van Province to the north, Iran to the east, and Iraq to the south. The current Governor is İdris Akbıyık. The province is a stronghold for Kurdish nationalism and a hotspot in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict.

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