مقاطعات تركيا

The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (ilçeler; sing. ilçe). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the kaza.

Districts of Turkey
Türkiye'nin İlçeleri (Turkish)
Map of the administrative divisions of Turkey.svg
التصنيفUnitary state
الموقعRepublic of Turkey
العدد973
عدد السكان1,615 (Yalıhüyük)-Konya Province – 957,398 (Esenyurt)-Istanbul
المساحة5.2 km2 (2 sq mi) (Güngören)-Istanbul – 3,710 km2 (1,432 sq mi) (Karaman)-Karaman Province
الحكومةDistrict government, National government
التقسيماتKöy

Most provinces bear the same name as their respective provincial capital districts. However, many urban provinces, designated as greater municipalities, have a center consisting of multiple districts, such as the provincial capital of Ankara province, The City of Ankara, comprising nine separate districts.[1] Additionally four provinces, Kocaeli, Sakarya, İçel and Hatay have their capital district named differently from their province, as İzmit, Adapazarı, Mersin and Antakya respectively.[2]

A district may cover both rural and urban areas. In many provinces, one district of a province is designated the central district (merkez ilçe) from which the district is administered. The central district is administered by an appointed provincial deputy governor and other non-central districts by an appointed sub-governor (kaymakam) from their district center (ilçe merkezi) municipality. In these central districts the district center municipality also serves as the provincial center municipality. Both the deputy governor and sub-governors are responsible to the province governor (vali). Greater Municipalities, however, are administrated differently where a separate seat of municipality exists for the entire province, having administrative power over all districts of the province.

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Local government

Municipalities (belediye) can be created in, and are subordinate to, the districts in which they are located. Each district has at least one municipality (belde) in the district center from which both the municipal government for that municipality and the district government is administered. A municipality is headed by an elected mayor (belediye başkanı) who administers the local government for defined municipal matters. More and more settlements which are outside district centers have municipalities as well, usually because their population requires one. A municipality's borders usually correspond to that of the urban settlement it covers, but may also include some undeveloped land.

Villages (köy) outside municipalities and quarters or neighborhoods (mahalle) within municipalities are the lowest level of local government, and are also the most numerous unit of local government in Turkey. They elect muhtars to care for specific administrative matters such as residence registration. The designation slightly differs (köy muhtarı for village muhtar, mahalle muhtarı for quarter muhtar) and the tasks, which are largely similar but are adapted to their locality.

Greater municipalities (büyükşehir belediyesi) exist for large cities like İstanbul and İzmir that consist of an extra administrative layer run by an elected head mayor, who oversee the municipalities and mayors within the province. Currently, 30 provinces are administrated by greater municipalities in addition to having separate municipalities for every district within the province.


List of districts with population

The districts and their populations (as of December 31, 2019) are listed below, by region and by province (with capital district in bold text).

Aegean Region

Aydın Subregion

Aydın Province
 
Districts of Aydın
Denizli Province
 
Districts of Denizli
Muğla Province
 
Districts of Muğla

İzmir Subregion

İzmir Province
 
Districts of İzmir


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Manisa Subregion

Afyonkarahisar Province
 
Districts of Afyonkarahisar
Kütahya Province
 
Districts of Kütahya
Manisa Province
 
Districts of Manisa
Uşak Province
 
Districts of Uşak

Central Anatolia

Kayseri Subregion

Kayseri Province
 
Districts of Kayseri


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Sivas Province
 
Districts of Sivas
Yozgat Province
 
Districts of Yozgat

Kırıkkale Subregion

Aksaray Province
 
Districts of Aksaray
Kırıkkale Province
 
Districts of Kırıkkale
Kırşehir Province
 
Districts of Kırşehir
Nevşehir Province
 
Districts of Nevşehir
Niğde Province
 
Districts of Niğde

Central-Eastern Anatolia

Malatya Subregion

Bingöl Province
 
Districts of Bingöl
Elazığ Province
 
Districts of Elazığ
Malatya Province
 
Districts of Malatya
Tunceli Province
 
Districts of Tunceli

Van Subregion

Bitlis Province
 
Districts of Bitlis
Hakkâri Province
 
Districts of Hakkâri


Muş Province
 
Districts of Muş
Van Province
 
Districts of Van

Eastern Black Sea Region

Ordu Subregion

Giresun Province
 
Districts of Giresun
Gümüşhane Province
 
Districts of Gümüşhane
Ordu Province
 
Districts of Ordu

Trabzon Subregion

Artvin Province
 
Districts of Artvin
Rize Province
 
Districts of Rize
Trabzon Province
 
Districts of Trabzon

Eastern Marmara Region

Bursa Subregion

Bilecik Province
 
Districts of Bilecik
Bursa Province
 
Districts of Bursa
Eskişehir Province
 
Districts of Eskişehir

Kocaeli Subregion

Bolu Province
 
Districts of Bolu
Düzce Province
 
Districts of Düzce
Kocaeli Province
 
Districts of Kocaeli
Sakarya Province
 
Districts of Sakarya
Yalova Province
 
Districts of Yalova

Istanbul Region

Istanbul Subregion

Istanbul Province
 
Districts of İstanbul

Mediterranean Region

Adana Subregion

Adana Province
 
Districts of Adana
Mersin Province
 
Districts of Mersin

Antalya Subregion

Antalya Province
 
Districts of Antalya
Burdur Province
 
Districts of Burdur
Isparta Province
 
Districts of Isparta

Hatay Subregion

Hatay Province
 
Districts of Hatay
Kahramanmaraş Province
 
Districts of Kahramanmaraş
Osmaniye Province
 
Districts of Osmaniye

Northeast Anatolia

Ağrı Subregion

Ağrı Province
 
Districts of Ağrı
Ardahan Province
 
Districts of Ardahan
Iğdır Province
 
Districts of Iğdır
Kars Province
 
Districts of Kars

Erzurum Subregion

Bayburt Province
 
Districts of Bayburt
Erzincan Province
 
Districts of Erzincan
Erzurum Province
 
Districts of Erzurum

Southeastern Anatolia

Gaziantep Subregion

Adıyaman Province
 
Districts of Adıyaman
Gaziantep Province
 
Districts of Gaziantep
Kilis Province
 
Districts of Kilis

Mardin Subregion

Batman Province
 
Districts of Batman
Mardin Province
 
Districts of Mardin
Şırnak Province
 
Districts of Şırnak
Siirt Province
 
Districts of Siirt

Şanlıurfa Subregion

Diyarbakır Province
 
Districts of Diyarbakır
Şanlıurfa Province
 
Districts of Şanlıurfa

Western Anatolia

Ankara Subregion

Ankara Province
 
Districts of Ankara

Konya Subregion

Karaman Province
 
Districts of Karaman
Konya Province
 
Districts of Konya

Western Black Sea Region

Kastamonu Subregion

Çankırı Province
 
Districts of Çankırı
Kastamonu Province
 
Districts of Kastamonu
Sinop Province
 
Districts of Sinop

Samsun Subregion

Amasya Province
 
Districts of Amasya
Çorum Province
 
Districts of Çorum
Samsun Province
 
Districts of Samsun
Tokat Province
 
Districts of Tokat

Zonguldak Subregion

Bartın Province
 
Districts of Bartın
Karabük Province
 
Districts of Karabük
Zonguldak Province
 
Districts of Zonguldak

Western Marmara Region

Balıkesir Subregion

Balıkesir Province
 
Districts of Balıkesir
Çanakkale Province
 
Districts of Çanakkale

Tekirdağ Subregion

Edirne Province
 
Districts of Edirne
Kırklareli Province
 
Districts of Kırklareli
Tekirdağ Province
 
Districts of Tekirdağ

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ankara ilinin ilçeleri ve merkez ilçeleri".
  2. ^ "İki İsimli İllerimiz ve İsmi Değiştirilen İllerimiz".