Konya Province

Konya Province is a province and metropolitan municipality in southwest Central Anatolia, Turkey, and its provincial capital is the city of Konya. With an area of 40,838 square kilometres it is the largest Turkish province by area, and its population was recorded as 2,296,347 in 2022. Within it lie Lake Tuz, the second largest lake in Turkey, which supplies much of the country's salt, and Lake Beyşehir, the largest freshwater lake in Turkey, set in a national park on the western side of the province, with two beaches and twenty-two islands that draw local tourism each year. The province also holds several caves, including those at Beyşehir, Derebucak and Seydişehir. It is divided into thirty-one districts, three of which (Meram, Selçuklu and Karatay) form part of Konya city. Places of interest include the Mevlâna Museum, Çatalhöyük, the İnce Minaret Madrasa and the Konya Archaeological Museum.