What is Bursa Province?
'''Bursa Province''' is a province of [[Turkey]] along the [[Sea of Marmara]] coast in northwestern [[Anatolia]]. It is next to [[Balıkesir]] to the west, [[Kütahya]] to the south, [[Bilecik]] and [[Sakarya]] to the east, [[Kocaeli]] to the northeast and [[Yalova]] to the north. The province has an area of 11,043 km<sup>2</sup> and 3,139,744 people lived there in 2021. Its [[traffic code]] is 16. Most of the Bursa Province districts (and the city of Bursa) are in the [[Marmara Region]], but the districts of Büyükorhan, Harmancık, Keles and Orhaneli are in the [[Aegean Region]]. The city of [[Bursa, Turkey|Bursa]] was the capital of the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman State]] between 1326 and 1365, until the Ottoman conquest of [[Edirne]], then known as Adrianople, which became the new Ottoman capital between 1365 and 1453, until Constantinople became the final Ottoman capital. [[Category:Bursa Province| ]]