Iğdır Province
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Iğdır Province (Turkis: Iğdır ili) is a province in eastren Turkey, locatit alang the border wi Armenie, Azerbaijan (the aurie o Nakhchivan), an Iran. Its adjacent provinces are Kars tae the northwast an Ağrı tae the wast an sooth. It occupees an aurie o 3,587 km²[1] an population o 184,418[2] (2010 est.), it wis 168,634 in 2000 (up frae 142,601 in 1990).
Turkey's heichest muntain, Munt Ararat (Ağrı Dağı) is in Iğdır, but hintle o the land is a wide plain far below the muntain. The climate is the warmest in this pairt o Turkey, cotton can be grown in Iğdır. Iğdır is where Noah is said tae hae thrived follaein the flood. The border wi Armenie follaes the Aras River.
The provincial caipital is the ceety o Iğdır.