'''Bingöl Province''' ({{lang-tr|{{italics correction|Bingöl ili}}}}; {{lang-ku|Parêzgeha Bîngolê}}, [[Zazaki language|Zazaki]]: Çewlîg, [[Northern Kurdish]]: Çewlîg; {{lang-hy|Ճապաղջուր Chapaghjur}}) is a province of [[Turkey]] in Eastern [[Anatolia]]. The province was created in 1946 out of parts of [[Elâzığ Province|Elazığ]] and [[Erzincan Province|Erzincan]]. The new province was known as '''Çapakçur Province''' until 1950. Its neighbouring provinces are [[Tunceli Province|Tunceli]], [[Erzurum Province|Erzurum]], [[Muş Province|Muş]], [[Diyarbakır Province|Diyarbakır]], [[Erzincan Province|Erzincan]] and [[Elazığ Province|Elazığ]]. The province covers an area of 8,125 km<sup>2</sup> and has a population of 255,170. The main spoken languages are [[Turkish language|Turkish]] and [[Zazaki language|Zazaki]]/[[Kurdish languages|Kurdish]]. The capital is [[Bingöl]]. The majority of the province's population is Kurdish.<ref>{{cite book|last=Watts|first=Nicole F.|title=Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey (Studies in Modernity and National Identity)|date=2010|publisher=University of Washington Press|location=Seattle|isbn=978-0-295-99050-7|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=yXWl40KJfKEC&pg=PA167&dq=Kars+(about+20+percent+Kurdish)&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DY5DU7jKJ4qc2QXYhYCACQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Kars%20(about%2020%20percent%20Kurdish)&f=false 167]}}</ref>
