Provinces of Turkey
Provinces of Turkey Türkiye'nin İlleri (Turkish) |
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Category | Unitary state |
Location | Republic of Turkey |
Number | 81 Provinces |
Populations | 74,412 (Bayburt) – 14,377,018 (Istanbul Province) |
Areas | 850 km2 (327 sq mi) (Yalova) – 38,260 km2 (14,771 sq mi) (Konya) |
Government | Provincal government, National government |
Subdivisions | Ilçe |
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Turkey is divided into 81 provinces (Turkish: il / vilayet). Each province is divided into a number of different districts (ilçe). The provincial governorate is set in the central district (merkez ilçe). The central area usually bears the name of the province (e.g. the city of Van is the central district of Van Province). There are only 3 exceptions[1] to this naming scheme:
A province is administered by an appointed governor (vali) from the ministry of interior.
List of provinces
Below is a list of the 81 provinces of Turkey, sorted according to their license plate code. After Zonguldak (67) the ordering is not alphabetical but in the order of the creation of provinces, as these provinces were created more recently and thus their plate numbers were assigned thereafter.
Name | Area (km²) | Population (2000 census) | Population (2014 estimate)[2] | |
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01 | Adana | 14,045.56 | 1,854,270 | 2,165,595 |
02 | Adıyaman | 7,606.16 | 623,811 | 597,835 |
03 | Afyonkarahisar | 14,718.63 | 812,416 | 706,371 |
04 | Ağrı | 11,498.67 | 528,744 | 549,435 |
05 | Amasya | 5,703.78 | 365,231 | 321,913 |
06 | Ankara | 25,401.94 | 4,007,860 | 5,150,072 |
07 | Antalya | 20,790.56 | 1,719,751 | 2,222,562 |
08 | Artvin | 7,367.10 | 191,934 | 169,674 |
09 | Aydın | 7,904.43 | 950,757 | 1,041,979 |
10 | Balıkesir | 14,472.73 | 1,076,347 | 1,189,057 |
11 | Bilecik | 4,306.77 | 194,326 | 209,925 |
12 | Bingöl | 8,253.51 | 253,739 | 266,019 |
13 | Bitlis | 7,094.50 | 388,678 | 338,023 |
14 | Bolu | 8,323.39 | 270,654 | 284,789 |
15 | Burdur | 7,134.95 | 256,803 | 256,898 |
16 | Bursa | 10,886.38 | 2,125,140 | 2,787,539 |
17 | Çanakkale | 9,950.43 | 464,975 | 511,790 |
18 | Çankırı | 7,491.89 | 270,355 | 183,550 |
19 | Çorum | 12,796.21 | 597,065 | 527,220 |
20 | Denizli | 11,804.19 | 950,757 | 978,700 |
21 | Diyarbakır | 15,204.01 | 1,362,708 | 1,635,048 |
22 | Edirne | 6,097.91 | 402,606 | 400,280 |
23 | Elazığ | 9,281.45 | 569,616 | 568,753 |
24 | Erzincan | 11,727.55 | 316,841 | 223,633 |
25 | Erzurum | 25,330.90 | 937,389 | 763,320 |
26 | Eskişehir | 13,902.03 | 706,009 | 812,320 |
27 | Gaziantep | 6,844.84 | 1,285,249 | 1,889,466 |
28 | Giresun | 6,831.58 | 523,819 | 429,984 |
29 | Gümüşhane | 6,437.01 | 186,953 | 146,353 |
30 | Hakkâri | 7,178.88 | 236,581 | 276,287 |
31 | Hatay | 5,831.36 | 1,253,726 | 1,519,836 |
32 | Isparta | 8,871.08 | 513,681 | 418,780 |
33 | Mersin | 15,512.25 | 1,651,400 | 1,727,255 |
34 | Istanbul | 5,315.33 | 10,018,735 | 14,377,018 |
35 | İzmir | 12,015.61 | 3,370,866 | 4,113,072 |
36 | Kars | 10,139.09 | 325,016 | 296,466 |
37 | Kastamonu | 13,157.98 | 375,476 | 368,907 |
38 | Kayseri | 17,109.33 | 1,060,432 | 1,322,376 |
39 | Kırklareli | 6,299.78 | 328,461 | 343,723 |
40 | Kırşehir | 6,530.32 | 253,239 | 222,707 |
41 | Kocaeli | 3,625.29 | 1,206,085 | 1,722,795 |
42 | Konya | 40,813.52 | 2,192,166 | 2,108,808 |
43 | Kütahya | 12,013.57 | 656,903 | 571,554 |
44 | Malatya | 12,102.70 | 853,658 | 769,544 |
45 | Manisa | 13,228.50 | 1,260,169 | 1,367,905 |
46 | Kahramanmaraş | 14,456.74 | 1,002,384 | 1,089,038 |
47 | Mardin | 8,806.04 | 705,098 | 788,996 |
48 | Muğla | 12,949.21 | 715,328 | 894,509 |
49 | Muş | 8,067.16 | 453,654 | 411,216 |
50 | Nevşehir | 5,391.64 | 309,914 | 286,250 |
51 | Niğde | 7,365.29 | 348,081 | 343,898 |
52 | Ordu | 5,952.49 | 887,765 | 724,268 |
53 | Rize | 3,921.98 | 365,938 | 329,779 |
54 | Sakarya | 4,880.19 | 756,168 | 932,706 |
55 | Samsun | 9,364.10 | 1,209,137 | 1,269,989 |
56 | Siirt | 5,473.29 | 263,676 | 318,366 |
57 | Sinop | 5,816.55 | 225,574 | 204,526 |
58 | Sivas | 28,567.34 | 755,091 | 623,116 |
59 | Tekirdağ | 6,342.30 | 623,591 | 906,732 |
60 | Tokat | 10,072.62 | 828,027 | 597,920 |
61 | Trabzon | 4,664.04 | 975,137 | 766,782 |
62 | Tunceli | 7,685.66 | 93,584 | 86,527 |
63 | Şanlıurfa | 19,336.21 | 1,443,422 | 1,845,667 |
64 | Uşak | 5,363.09 | 322,313 | 349,459 |
65 | Van | 19,414.14 | 877,524 | 1,085,542 |
66 | Yozgat | 14,074.09 | 682,919 | 432,560 |
67 | Zonguldak | 3,309.86 | 615,599 | 598,796 |
68 | Aksaray | 7,965.51 | 396,084 | 384,252 |
69 | Bayburt | 3,739.08 | 97,358 | 80,607 |
70 | Karaman | 8,868.90 | 243,210 | 240,362 |
71 | Kırıkkale | 4,569.76 | 383,508 | 271,092 |
72 | Batman | 4,659.21 | 456,734 | 557,593 |
73 | Şırnak | 7,151.57 | 353,197 | 488,966 |
74 | Bartın | 2,080.36 | 184,178 | 189,405 |
75 | Ardahan | 4,967.63 | 133,756 | 100,809 |
76 | Iğdır | 3,587.81 | 168,634 | 192,056 |
77 | Yalova | 850.46 | 168,593 | 226,514 |
78 | Karabük | 4,108.80 | 225,102 | 231,333 |
79 | Kilis | 1,427.76 | 114,724 | 128,781 |
80 | Osmaniye | 3,195.99 | 458,782 | 506,807 |
81 | Düzce | 2,592.95 | 314,266 | 355,549 |
Codes
The numbers of the ISO code, the first two digits of the vehicle registration plates of Turkey and the first digits of the postal codes in Turkey are the same. NUTS codes are different.
Name | ISO 3166-2 | NUTS | Phone prefix |
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Adana | TR-01 | TR621 | 322 |
Adıyaman | TR-02 | TRC12 | 416 |
Afyonkarahisar | TR-03 | TR332 | 272 |
Ağrı | TR-04 | TRA21 | 472 |
Aksaray | TR-68 | TR712 | 382 |
Amasya | TR-05 | TR834 | 358 |
Ankara | TR-06 | TR510 | 312 |
Antalya | TR-07 | TR611 | 242 |
Ardahan | TR-75 | TRA24 | 478 |
Artvin | TR-08 | TR905 | 466 |
Aydın | TR-09 | TR321 | 256 |
Balıkesir | TR-10 | TR221 | 266 |
Bartın | TR-74 | TR813 | 378 |
Batman | TR-72 | TRC32 | 488 |
Bayburt | TR-69 | TRA13 | 458 |
Bilecik | TR-11 | TR413 | 228 |
Bingöl | TR-12 | TRB13 | 426 |
Bitlis | TR-13 | TRB23 | 434 |
Bolu | TR-14 | TR424 | 374 |
Burdur | TR-15 | TR613 | 248 |
Bursa | TR-16 | TR411 | 224 |
Çanakkale | TR-17 | TR222 | 286 |
Çankırı | TR-18 | TR822 | 376 |
Çorum | TR-19 | TR833 | 364 |
Denizli | TR-20 | TR322 | 258 |
Diyarbakır | TR-21 | TRC22 | 412 |
Düzce | TR-81 | TR423 | 380 |
Edirne | TR-22 | TR212 | 284 |
Elazığ | TR-23 | TRB12 | 424 |
Erzincan | TR-24 | TRA12 | 446 |
Erzurum | TR-25 | TRA11 | 442 |
Eskisehir | TR-26 | TR412 | 222 |
Gaziantep | TR-27 | TRC11 | 342 |
Giresun | TR-28 | TR903 | 454 |
Gümüşhane | TR-29 | TR906 | 456 |
Hakkari | TR-30 | TRB24 | 438 |
Hatay | TR-31 | TR631 | 326 |
Iğdır | TR-76 | TRA23 | 476 |
Isparta | TR-32 | TR612 | 246 |
Istanbul-I (Thrace) | TR-34 | TR100 | 212 |
Istanbul-II (Anatolia) | TR-34 | TR100 | 216 |
İzmir | TR-35 | TR310 | 232 |
Kahramanmaraş | TR-46 | TR632 | 344 |
Karabük | TR-78 | TR812 | 370 |
Karaman | TR-70 | TR522 | 338 |
Kars | TR-36 | TRA22 | 474 |
Kastamonu | TR-37 | TR821 | 366 |
Kayseri | TR-38 | TR721 | 352 |
Kilis | TR-79 | TRC13 | 348 |
Kırıkkale | TR-71 | TR711 | 318 |
Kırklareli | TR-39 | TR213 | 288 |
Kırşehir | TR-40 | TR715 | 386 |
Kocaeli (İzmit) | TR-41 | TR421 | 262 |
Konya | TR-42 | TR521 | 332 |
Kütahya | TR-43 | TR333 | 274 |
Malatya | TR-44 | TRB11 | 422 |
Manisa | TR-45 | TR331 | 236 |
Mardin | TR-47 | TRC31 | 482 |
Mersin | TR-33 | TR622 | 324 |
Muğla | TR-48 | TR323 | 252 |
Muş | TR-49 | TRB22 | 436 |
Nevşehir | TR-50 | TR714 | 384 |
Niğde | TR-51 | TR713 | 388 |
Ordu | TR-52 | TR902 | 452 |
Osmaniye | TR-80 | TR633 | 328 |
Rize | TR-53 | TR904 | 464 |
Sakarya (Adapazarı) | TR-54 | TR422 | 264 |
Samsun | TR-55 | TR831 | 362 |
Şanlıurfa | TR-63 | TRC21 | 414 |
Siirt | TR-56 | TRC34 | 484 |
Sinop | TR-57 | TR823 | 368 |
Sivas | TR-58 | TRC33 | 346 |
Şırnak | TR-73 | TR722 | 486 |
Tekirdağ | TR-59 | TR211 | 282 |
Tokat | TR-60 | TR832 | 356 |
Trabzon | TR-61 | TR901 | 462 |
Tunceli | TR-62 | TRB14 | 428 |
Uşak | TR-64 | TR334 | 276 |
Van | TR-65 | TRB21 | 432 |
Yalova | TR-77 | TR425 | 226 |
Yozgat | TR-66 | TR723 | 354 |
Zonguldak | TR-67 | TR811 | 372 |
Governors
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Defunct provinces
- Bayazıt, now part of Ağrı Province
- Çatalca, now part of Istanbul Province
- Elazığ Madeni, now part of Elazığ Province
- Gelibolu, now part of Çanakkale Province
- Genç, now part of Bingöl Province
- Kozan, now part of Adana Province
- Şebinkarahisar, now part of Giresun Province
- Siverek, now part of Şanlıurfa Province
- Silifke, now part of Mersin Province
See also
- Bucak
- Districts of Turkey
- Metropolitan centers in Turkey
- Regions of Turkey
- Villages of Turkey
- ISO 3166-2:TR
- Muhtar (title)
References
- ↑ There were 4. The city of Mersin was previously under İçel province.
- ↑ http://www.tuik.gov.tr/PreIstatistikTablo.do?istab_id=1595