Malatya Province (Turkish: Malatya ili) is a province of Turkey. It is part of a larger mountainous area. The capital of the province is Malatya (in Hittite: Milid or Maldi, meaning "city of honey"), which has many residents. Malatya is famous for its apricots. Malatya products world apricots' %80. The area of Malatya province is 12,313 km². Malatya Province has 740,643 inhabitants. The population was 853,658 in 2000. The city of Malatya has a population of 381,081 (2000).