Van Province

Van Province Van ili
Province and metropolitan municipality
Location of the province within Turkey
Country	Turkey
Seat	Van
Government
• Governor	Ozan Balcı
Area	20,921 km2 (8,078 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[1]	1,128,749
• Density	54/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Area code	0432[2]
Website	www.van.bel.tr www.van.gov.tr

Van Province (Turkish: Van ili, Kurdish: Parezgêha Wanê,^[3] 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 km²,^[4] and its population is 1,128,749 (2022).^[1] 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 at the end of 2022. The second-largest city is Erciş, with 92,945 inhabitants at end 2022. The province was part of ancient province of Vaspurakan^[5] and is considered to be the cradle of Armenian civilization. Before the Armenian genocide, Van Province was one of the six Armenian vilayets.^[6][7] A majority of the province's modern-day population is ethnic Kurds.^[8]