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Hakkari is a province in the southeast corner of Turkey, located at the juncture of Iraq and Iran.
The capital is Hakkari. The province covers an area of 7,121 km² and has a population of 272,566 (2006 est). The province had a population of 236,581 in 2000.
The province was created in 1936 out of part of Van Province. Its adjacent provinces are Şırnak to the west and Van to the north.
In Ottoman times, there were also numerous Assyrian tribes in the province, though fighting during the First World War forced most of them into Persia and Iraq. The Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East was also resident in Hakkari Province until then.
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