Subregion Malatya Area code 426 | Region Central East Anatolia Vehicle registration 12 | |
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Bingöl Province (Turkish: Bingöl ili, Kurdish: Parêzgeha Bîngolê) (Armenian: Ճապաղջուր Chapaghjur, Zazaki: Çewlîg, Northern Kurdish: Çewlîg) is a province of Turkey in Eastern Anatolia. The province was created in 1946 out of parts of Elazığ and Erzincan. The new province was known as Çapakçur Province until 1950. Its neighbouring provinces are Tunceli, Erzurum, Muş, Diyarbakır, Erzincan and Elazığ. The province covers an area of 8,125 km² and has a population of 255,170. The main spoken languages are Turkish and Zazaki/Kurdish. The capital is Bingöl. The majority of the province's population is Zaza.
Contents
Map of Bing%C3%B6l, Turkey
Districts
Bingöl province is divided into 8 districts (capital district in bold):
References
Bingöl Province Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA