Eastern Anatolia Region
Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi | |
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| Country | Turkey |
| Area | |
| • Total | 165,436 km2 (63,875 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 6,513,106 |
| • Density | 39/km2 (100/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | US$ 28.582 billion (2022) |
| • Per capita | US$ 4,390 (2022) |
The Eastern Anatolia region (Turkish: Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey. The most populous province in the region is Van Province. Other populous provinces are Malatya, Erzurum and Elazığ.
It is bordered by the Black Sea Region and Georgia in the north, the Central Anatolia Region in the west, the Mediterranean Region in the southwest, the Southeastern Anatolia Region and Iraq in the south, and Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran in the east.
The region encompasses most of Western Armenia and had a large population of indigenous Armenians until the Armenian genocide. The Anatolia peninsula historically never encompassed what is now called "Eastern Anatolia" which was, instead, referred to as the Armenian highlands. It was renamed by the newly founded Turkish Republic in the 1920s.[2] This has been seen as an attempt by Turkey to erase the Armenian history of the region.[3][4]
It has the highest average altitude, largest geographical area, and lowest population density of the seven Turkish regions.
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