Hakkâri Province
province in southeast Turkey
Hakkâri Province (pronounced [hacːaːɾi], Turkish: Hakkâri ili; Kurdish: Parêzgeha Colemêrg), is a province in the southeast of Turkey. It borders Van Province to the north, and Şırnak Province to the west. The administrative centre is the city of Hakkâri. Its area is 7,095 km2, and its population is 287,625 (2023). The current Governor is Ali Çelik. The province encompasses 8 municipalities, 140 villages and 313 hamlets. The province is considered part of Turkish Kurdistan and has a Kurdish majority.
The province is a stronghold for Kurdish nationalism and a hotspot in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict.
Districts
Hakkâri province is divided into five districts (capital district in bold):
Çukurca District
Derecik District (since 2018)
Hakkâri District
Şemdinli District
Yüksekova District
Demographics
Hakkari Province is located in Turkish Kurdistan and has an overwhelmingly Kurdish population. The province is tribal and most of the Kurds adhere to the Shafiʽi school of Sunni Islam with the Naqshbandi order having a strong presence around Şemdinli.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hakkâri Province” as province in southeast Turkey. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as province in southeast Turkey. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q93209. VIAF identifies the subject as 239981466. The Library of Congress control number is n91107764. Authority coordinates are 37.466, 44.064. None of the 4 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023 and 2018.
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