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Districts of Turkey

The provinces of Turkey are divided into 923 districts (ilçeler; sing. ilçe). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the kaza.

The district usually bears the same name as the district capital (with the exception of the districts of Antakya (in Hatay), İzmit (in Kocaeli), and Adapazarı (in Sakarya).

A district may cover both rural and urban areas. One district of a province is the "central district" (merkez ilçe); the central district is administered by an appointed "vice-governor" and other districts by a "sub-governor" (kaymakam). Each municipality (belediye) in the urban zone (belde) of a district is an administrative division subject to elections depending on the province.

Each district (including the central district) corresponds to a specific area within the province. The area is administered from the "district center" (ilçe merkezi, not to be confuse with "central district" merkez ilçe), where resides the appointed kaymakam, the head official for that district, who is responsible to the province governor. Central districts do not have kaymakams, they are administered by a vice-governor.

All district centers have municipalities (belediye), headed by an elected mayor, who administers a defined municipality area (usually matching the urban zone) for defined municipal matters. A growing number of settlements, which are outside of district centers, have municipalities as well, usually because their population requires one. These are (also) called belde. They haven't (yet) become district centers because there is one close by, or due to some other reason. A belde has a mayor (responsible for its municipal zone), but not a kaymakam, and depends administratively on the district center of the district within whose boundaries it is situated.

At the bottom end, there are villages, who have elected muhtars taking care of specific administrative matters such as residence registration. Furthermore, each quarter (mahalle) of a district center and belde has a muhtar as well, also for specific administrative questions. The designation slightly differs (köy muhtarı for village muhtar, mahalle muhtarı for quarter muhtar) and also the tasks, which are largely similar but adapted to their locality.

In some cases, a belde has become larger than the district center it depends on, and a district center larger than the central district it depends on (and many other district centers). One final note is the büyükşehir belediyesi (or greater municipality) for metropolises like İstanbul or İzmir, an extra administrative layer which has at its top an elected head mayor, who oversee a number of municipalities and mayors.

The districts and their populations (as of 2007) are listed below, by province (with capital district in bold text):


İstanbul Province: 11.914.848 (all of the districts are "central district")

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Districts of İstanbul


Ankara Province: 4.453.463

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Districts of Ankara


İzmir Province: 3.769.462

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Districts of İzmir


Bursa Province: 2.466.280

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Districts of Bursa


Konya Province: 2.451.230

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Districts of Konya


Antalya Province: 2.135.274

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Districts of Antalya


Adana Province: 2.006.340

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Districts of Adana


Mersin Province: 1.892.958

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Districts of Mersin


Şanlıurfa Province: 1.747.432

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Districts of Şanlıurfa


Diyarbakır Province: 1.517.672

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Districts of Diyarbakır


Gaziantep Province: 1.452.154

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Districts of Gaziantep


Kocaeli Province: 1.387.115 (all of the districts are "central district")

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Districts of Kocaeli


Hatay Province: 1.307.975

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Districts of Hatay


Manisa Province: 1.280.625

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Districts of Manisa


Samsun Province: 1.181.944

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Districts of Samsun


Balıkesir Province: 1.104.093

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Districts of Balıkesir


Kayseri Province: 1.101.565

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Districts of Kayseri


Trabzon Province: 1.076.194

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Districts of Trabzon


Kahramanmaraş Province: 1.039.645

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Districts of Kahramanmaraş


Van Province: 1.037.333

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Districts of Van


Aydın Province: 1.006.554

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Districts of Aydın


Erzurum Province: 961.809

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Districts of Erzurum


Malatya Province: 935.432

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Districts of Malatya


Ordu Province: 890.264

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Districts of Ordu


Denizli Province: 888.151

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Districts of Denizli


Tokat Province: 876.276

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Districts of Tokat


Afyonkarahisar Province: 830.204

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Districts of Afyonkarahisar


Muğla Province: 807.824

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Districts of Muğla


Mardin Province: 793.197

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Districts of Mardin


Sakarya Province: 776.690

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Districts of Sakarya


Yozgat Province: 735.011

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Districts of Yozgat


Tekirdağ Province: 723.281

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Districts of Tekirdağ


Eskişehir Province: 722.245

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Districts of Eskişehir


Sivas Province: 701.675

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Districts of Sivas


Kütahya Province: 688.443

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Districts of Kütahya


Adıyaman Province: 686.964

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Districts of Adıyaman


Elazığ Province: 599.492

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Districts of Elazığ


Ağrı Province: 578.674

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Districts of Ağrı


Isparta Province: 553.330

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Districts of Isparta


Çorum Province: 552.799

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Districts of Çorum


Zonguldak Province: 547.060

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Districts of Zonguldak


Batman Province: 529.112

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Districts of Batman


Giresun Province: 515.045

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Districts of Giresun


Osmaniye Province: 497.867

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Districts of Osmaniye


Muş Province: 495.160

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Districts of Muş


Çanakkale Province: 467.006

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Districts of Çanakkale


Aksaray Province: 430.740

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Districts of Aksaray


Bitlis Province: 417.677

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Districts of Bitlis


Şırnak Province: 412.758

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Districts of Şırnak


Kırıkkale Province: 390.577

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Districts of Kırıkkale


Edirne Province: 377.852

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Districts of Edirne


Niğde Province: 368.755

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Districts of Niğde


Rize Province: 360.031

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Districts of Rize


Amasya Province: 349.573

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Districts of Amasya


Uşak Province: 331.801

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Districts of Uşak


Düzce Province: 331.798

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Districts of Düzce


Kırklareli Province: 326.259

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Districts of Kırklareli


Erzincan Province: 314.115

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Districts of Erzincan


Kastamonu Province: 312.274

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Districts of Kastamonu


Nevşehir Province: 310.045

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Districts of Nevşehir


Kars Province: 279.498

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Districts of Kars


Hakkâri Province: 279.118

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Districts of Hakkâri


Çankırı Province: 273.277

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Districts of Çankırı


Siirt Province: 266.307

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Districts of Siirt


Bolu Province: 261.949

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Districts of Bolu


Karaman Province: 253.821

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Districts of Karaman


Burdur Province: 243.790

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Districts of Burdur


Bingöl Province: 243.316

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Districts of Bingöl


Kırşehir Province: 235.752

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Districts of Kırşehir


Bilecik Province: 199.423

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Districts of Bilecik


Karabük Province: 195.555

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Districts of Karabük


Gümüşhane Province: 192.103

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Districts of Gümüşhane


Yalova Province: 188.229

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Districts of Yalova


Iğdır Province: 181.762

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Districts of Iğdır


Sinop Province: 178.068

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Districts of Sinop


Artvin Province: 162.687

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Districts of Artvin


Bartın Province: 154.713

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Districts of Bartın


Ardahan Province: 116.777

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Districts of Ardahan


Kilis Province: 94.635


Bayburt Province: 83.073

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Districts of Bayburt


Tunceli Province: 73.724

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Districts of Tunceli


[edit] See also

az:Türkiyənin ilçələri

it:Distretti della Turchia nl:Districten van Turkije ro:Districtele Turciei fi:Turkin piirikunnat tr:Türkiye'deki ilçeler tk:Türkiýe ilçeler

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