Place:Van, Turkey

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NameVan
Alt namesVansource: Wikipedia
Van Ilisource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Van Vilayetisource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
TypeProvince
Coordinates38.5°N 43.5°E
Located inTurkey
See alsoDoğu Anadolu,removed name of Region
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Başkale
Dorutay
Ercis
Gedikbulak
Gevaş
Gurpinar
Muraḋiye
Soradir
Van
Çaldiran
Çatak
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Van Province (, Armenian: Վանի մարզ) is a province in the Eastern Anatolian region of Turkey, between Lake Van and the Iranian border. It is 19,069 km2 in area and had a population of 1,035,418 at the end of 2010. 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. The province is considered part of Western Armenia by Armenians and was part of ancient province of Vaspurakan. The region is considered to be the cradle of Armenian civilization. Before the Armenian genocide, Van Province was part of six Armenian vilayets. A majority of the province's modern day population is Kurdish. The current Governor is Mehmet Emin Bilmez.

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