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Gaziantep Province

Province of Turkey

Summary

Province of Turkey

Field	Value
type	metro province
other_name	Gaziantep ili
image_skyline	{{Multiple image	total_width=300px	perrow=1/2/2/1	border=infobox
image1	Gaziantepskyline.jpg
alt1	The city of Gaziantep
image2	(Rumkale).jpg
alt2	Rumkale
image3	Barley-Turkyurdu Village-Gaziantep-ali riza.jpg
alt3	Barley field near the Syrian border
image4	Dülük baba parki.jpg
alt4	Dülükbaba Park
image5	Amanos Mountains 01.jpg
alt5	Amanos Mountains
image_caption	Clockwise from top: The city of Gaziantep, a barley field near the Syrian border, Amanos Mountains, Dülükbaba Park, Rumkale
image_map	Gaziantep in Turkey.svg
map_caption	Location of the province within Turkey
coordinates
seat	Gaziantep
leader_name1	Kemal Çeber
leader_party	AKP
leader_name	Fatma Şahin
area_total_km2	6803
population_footnotes
population_total	2154051
population_as_of	2022
area_code	0342
<!--	iso_code	TR-27 --
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An important trading center since ancient times, the province is also one of Turkey's major manufacturing zones, and its agriculture is dominated by the cultivation of pistachio nuts.

In ancient times, first under the power of Yamhad, then the Hittites and later the Assyrians controlled the region. It saw much fighting during the Crusades, and Saladin won a key battle there in 1183. After World War I and the Ottoman Empire's disintegration, it was invaded by the forces of the French Third Republic during the Turkish War of Independence. It was returned to Turkish control after the Treaty of Lausanne was signed, formally ending hostilities between Turkey and the Allies of World War I.

Originally known as Antep, the title gazi (meaning veteran in Turkish) was added to the province's and the provincial capital's name in 1921, due to its population's actions during the Turkish War of Independence.

Kilis Province was part of Gaziantep Province until it separated in 1994. Turks are the majority in the province although there is a substantial Kurdish population.

Geography

Gaziantep is traversed by the northeasterly lines of equal latitude and longitude.

Geology

Two major active geological faults meet in western Gaziantep near the border with adjoining Osmaniye Province: the Dead Sea Transform and the East Anatolian Fault. These represent the tectonic boundary between the northward-moving Arabian Plate to the east, and the converging African and Eurasian Plates to the west.

On February 6, 2023, at 04:17 TRT (01:17 UTC), a moment magnitude ( ) 7.8 earthquake occurred in Gaziantep Province on the East Anatolian Fault, which caused widespread damage and loss of life. The epicenter was 37 km west-northwest of the city of Gaziantep. At 13:24, it was followed by an 7.7 earthquake.

Climate

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Districts

There are nine districts as listed below:

Araban
İslahiye
Karkamış
Nizip
Nurdağı
Oğuzeli
Şahinbey
Şehitkamil
Yavuzeli

The city of Gaziantep encompasses Şahinbey and Şehitkamil districts; İslahiye and Nurdağı districts form the western part of the province, while the remaining districts lie to the east of Gaziantep city.

Demographics

|1927|213,499 |1935|283,506 |1940|306,906 |1950|328,343 |1960|434,579 |1970|606,540 |1980|808,697 |1990|1,140,594 |2000|1,285,249 |2010|1,700,763 |2020|2,101,157 |2022|2,154,051

References

"Gaziantep Valisi Kemal ÇEBER". Gaziantep Valiliği.
"İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping.
"Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports". [[TÜİK]].
Khanam, R.. (2005). "Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia". Global Vision Publishing House.
National Earthquake Information Center. (6 February 2023). "M 7.8 - 26 km ENE of Nurdağı, Turkey". United States Geological Survey.
"Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution". Nature Scientific Data. [[Digital object identifier. DOI]]:[https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018214 10.1038/sdata.2018.214].
[https://biruni.tuik.gov.tr/nufusmenuapp/menu.zul Genel Nüfus Sayımları]
[https://kutuphane.tuik.gov.tr/yordambt/yordam.php Turkstat]
"The Results of Address Based Population Registration System, 2020". Turkish Statistical Institute.

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