Talk:Southeastern Anatolia region

Reason for move

"Southeastern Anatolia Region" got way more Google hits than "South Eastern Anatolia Region". Also, the article already used this spelling. Khoikhoi 07:22, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Major changes/corrections

Maps

Right now, these maps are used in the article:

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These maps are quite simply incorrect; the borders of the geographical regions of Turkey do not overlap with the borders of the administrative provinces.

This is the correct map of the geographical Eastern Anatolia Region:

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Provinces in the Southeastern Anatolia Region

Since the borders do not overlap, there can be no clear-cut list of provinces in the Eastern Anatolia Region.

Right now, this list is featured in the article:

Provinces in the Southeastern Anatolia Region

• Adıyaman Province
• Batman Province
• Diyarbakır Province
• Gaziantep Province
• Kilis Province
• Mardin Province
• Siirt Province
• Şanlıurfa Province
• Şırnak Province

This list is also incorrect.

If we want to list the provinces in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, we will need at least two, but preferable three categorizies:

1. Provinces that are entirely in the Southeastern Anatolia Region.
2. Provinces that are mostly in the Southeastern Anatolia Region.
3. Provinces that have central district in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, but most of their area in other regions.
4. Provinces that are partially in the Southeastern Anatolia Region.

According to this map, which shows both geographical and provincial borders, the correct list should be as follows:

Provinces in the Southeastern Anatolia Region

Provinces that are entirely in the Southeastern Anatolia Region:

• Mardin
• Şanlıurfa

Provinces that are mostly in the Southeastern Anatolia Region:

• Adıyaman
• Batman
• Diyarbakır
• Gaziantep
• Kilis

Provinces that have their central district in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, but most of their area in other regions:

• Siirt

Provinces that are partially in the Southeastern Anatolia Region:

• Bitlis
• Bingöl
• Kahramanmaraş
• Malatya
• Şırnak

Population

Since the geographical borders are imprecise (they don't overlap with district borders either), there is no convenient way to calculate the population of the geographical Eastern Anatolia Region, or other geographical regions of Turkey for that matter. Any figure you see on the Internet in this regard is, at best, imprecise guesswork. I propose that we rank geographical regions among themselves and leave it at that. --Mttll (talk) 11:27, 20 January 2015 (UTC)