Van is a city in southeastern Turkey and the seat of the Kurdish-majority Van Province, and is located on the eastern shore of Lake Van. The city’s official population in 2010 was 367,419, but many estimates put this as much higher with a 1996 estimate stating 500,000 and former Mayor Burhan Yengun quoted as saying it may be as high as 600,000. The Van Central district stretches over 2,289 square kilometers. The modern city is located on the plain extending from the Lake Van, at a distance of 5 kilometers from the lake shore.Van has often been called “The Pearl of the East” because of the beauty of its surrounding landscape. An old Armenian proverb in the same sense is “Van in this World, paradise in the next.” This phrase has been slightly modified in Turkish as dünyada Van, ahirette iman or “Van for this world, faith for the next.”

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