Bingöl Province (, ) is a province of
Turkey in Eastern
Anatolia. The province was created in 1946 out of parts of
Elazig and
Erzincan. The new province was known as
Çapakçur Province until 1950. Its neighbouring provinces are
Tunceli,
Erzurum,
Mus,
Diyarbakir,
Erzincan and
Elazig. The province covers an area of 8,125 km² and has a population of 255,170. The main spoken languages are
Turkish and
Zazaki/
Kurdish. The capital is
Bingöl. The majority of the province's population is Zaza.