Konya Province

Konya Province

Konya ili
Konya Province Konya ili
Province of Turkey
	Location of Konya Province in Turkey
Country	Turkey
Region	West Anatolia
Subregion	Konya
Government
• Electoral district	Konya
• Governor	Vahdettin Özkan
Area
• Total	38,257 km2 (14,771 sq mi)
Population (2018)
• Total	2,205,609
• Density	58/km2 (150/sq mi)
Area code	0332
Vehicle registration	42

Konya Province (Template:Lang-tr), symbolized as 42, is a province of Turkey in southwest-central Anatolia. The provincial capital is the city of Konya. By area it is the largest province of Turkey.

The Kızılören solar power plant in Konya will be able to produce 22.5 megawatts of electricity in an area of 430,000 square meters.^[2]

Demographics

In 2011 the Konya Metropolitan Municipality had a population close to 1.1 million, out of the 2 million in the Konya Province (76.2% of the population in Konya Province lives in the city, while the remainder live in the villages, sub-districts and districts.) Konya Province has 31 districts, three of which are central districts: Karatay, Meram and Selçuklu.

Language census

Official first language results (1927-1965^[3])

Language	1927	1935	1945	1950	1955	1960	1965
Turkish	94.8%	95.3%	96.1%	95.7%	96.6%	98.7%	97.3%
Kurdish	4.2%	4%	3.8%	2.6%	2.9%	1.1%	2.5%
Circassian	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
Tatar	0.2%	0.3%	—	—	—	—	—
Albanian	0.1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Other	0.2%	0.1%	0%	1.5%	0.3%	0%	0.1%

Divisions

The Konya province is divided into thirty-one districts three of which are actually included in the municipality of Konya city (shown in boldface letters).