Bingöl Province
Bingöl Province (Zazaki: Çolig) 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 (Dersim), Erzurum, Muş, Diyarbakır, Erzincan and Elazığ. The province covers an area of 8,125 km² and has a population of 245,243. The main spoken languagues are Turkish and Zazaki. The capital is Bingöl.
Districts
Bingöl province is divided into 8 districts (capital district in bold):
- Adaklı
- Bingöl
- Genç
- Karlıova
- Kiğı
- Solhan
- Yayladere
- Yedisu
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