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Kars Province
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 Kars Province |
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| Location of Kars Province in Turkey | |
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| Region: | Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey |
| Area: | 9,587 (km²) |
| Total Population | 287,106 TUIK 2006 (est) |
| Licence plate code: | 36 |
| Area code: | 0474 |
| Governor Website | http://www.kars.gov.tr |
| Weather forecast | turkeyforecast.com/weather/kars |
Kars is a province (Turkish: il) of Turkey, located in the northeastern part of the country. It shares part of its border with the Republic of Armenia. From 1878 until 1917 all of the present-day province of Kars was part of the Russian oblast of Kars. From 1918 to 1920 the province was under the administration of the Democratic Republic of Armenia as the Vanand province (with the city of Kars as its capital). Its territory was ceded to Turkey by the Soviet Union in the Treaty of Kars. The provinces of Ardahan and Iğdır were until the 1990s part of Kars Province.
Kars province is divided into 8 districts (ilçe), each named after the administrative center of the district:
There are 383 villages in Kars.
Kars was also the setting for the popular novel Snow by Orhan Pamuk.
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Kars Province (in the East Anatolia region) of Turkey |
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| Urban districts | Kars |   |
| Rural districts | Akyaka - Arpaçay - Digor - Kağızman - Sarıkamış - Selim - Susuz | |
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| Aegean | ||
| Black Sea | ||
| Central Anatolia | ||
| East Anatolia | ||
| Marmara | ||
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| Southeastern Anatolia | ||
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