At the beginning of the 20th century it reportedly had an area of 32,339 square miles (83,760 km2), while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 892,901.

[4] The accuracy of the population figures ranges from "approximate" to "merely conjectural" depending on the region from which they were gathered.

It was an agricultural country, depending for its prosperity on its grain, wool and the mohair obtained from the Angora goats.

[1] There were mines of silver, copper, lignite and salt, and many hot springs, including some of great repute medicinally.

[6] Sanjaks of the Vilayet:[7] There was an Armenian village called Stanoz in proximity to Angora.