Districts of Turkey

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

Districts of Turkey
Türkiye'nin ilçeleri (Turkish)
CategoryUnitary state
LocationRepublic of Turkey
Number973
Populations1,615 (Yalıhüyük)-Konya Province – 957,398 (Esenyurt)-Istanbul Province
Areas5.2 km2 (2 sq mi) (Güngören)-Istanbul Province – 4,314.00 km2 (1,665.645 sq mi) (Siverek)-Şanlıurfa Province
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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 administered differently where a separate seat of municipality exists for the entire province, having administrative power over all districts of the province.

Local government
Main article: Local government in Turkey

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 Istanbul 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 administered 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).

Aydın Province
Denizli Province
Muğla Province
İzmir Province
Afyonkarahisar Province
Kütahya Province
Manisa Province
Uşak Province
Kayseri Province
Sivas Province
Yozgat Province
Aksaray Province
Kırıkkale Province
Kırşehir Province
Nevşehir Province
Niğde Province
Bingöl Province
Elazığ Province
Malatya Province
Tunceli Province
Bitlis Province
Hakkâri Province


Muş Province
Van Province
Giresun Province
Gümüşhane Province
Ordu Province
Artvin Province
Rize Province
Trabzon Province
Bilecik Province
Bursa Province
Eskişehir Province
Bolu Province
Düzce Province
Kocaeli Province
Sakarya Province
Yalova Province
Istanbul Province
Adana Province
Mersin Province
Antalya Province
Burdur Province
Isparta Province
Hatay Province
Kahramanmaraş Province
Osmaniye Province
Ağrı Province
Ardahan Province
Iğdır Province
Kars Province
Bayburt Province
Erzincan Province
Erzurum Province
Adıyaman Province
Gaziantep Province
Kilis Province
Batman Province
Mardin Province
Şırnak Province
Siirt Province
Diyarbakır Province
Şanlıurfa Province
Ankara Province
Karaman Province
Konya Province
Çankırı Province
Kastamonu Province
Sinop Province
Amasya Province
Çorum Province
Samsun Province
Tokat Province
Bartın Province
Karabük Province
Zonguldak Province
Balıkesir Province
Çanakkale Province
Edirne Province
Kırklareli Province
Tekirdağ Province

See also

References
  1. "Ankara ilinin ilçeleri ve merkez ilçeleri". 26 January 2024.
  2. "İki İsimli İllerimiz ve İsmi Değiştirilen İllerimiz". 7 October 2018.
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