First-level administrative division of Turkey
Turkey is divided into 81 provinces (Turkish : il ). Each province is divided into a number of districts (ilçe ). Each provincial government is seated in the central district (merkez ilçe ). For non-metropolitan municipality designated provinces, the central district bears the name of the province (e.g. the city/district of Rize is the central district of Rize Province ).
Each province is administered by an appointed governor (vali ) from the Ministry of the Interior .
List of provinces
Below is a list of the 81 provinces of Turkey, sorted according to their license plate codes. Initially, the order of the codes matched the alphabetical order of the province names. After Zonguldak (code 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 after the initial set of codes had been assigned.
Provinces of the Republic of Turkey
Name
Area (km2 )
Population (2000 census)
Population (2019-2020 estimate)[1]
01
Adana
14,045.56
1,854,270
2,237,940
02
Adıyaman
7,606.16
623,811
626,465
03
Afyonkarahisar
14,718.63
812,416
729,483
04
Ağrı
11,498.67
528,744
536,199
05
Amasya
5,703.78
365,231
337,800
06
Ankara
25,401.94
4,007,860
5,639,076
07
Antalya
20,790.56
1,719,751
2,511,700
08
Artvin
7,367.10
191,934
170,875
09
Aydın
7,904.43
950,757
1,110,972
10
Balıkesir
14,472.73
1,076,347
1,228,650
11
Bilecik
4,306.77
194,326
219,427
12
Bingöl
8,253.51
253,739
279,812
13
Bitlis
7,094.50
388,678
348,115
14
Bolu
8,323.39
270,654
316,126
15
Burdur
7,134.95
256,803
270,796
16
Bursa
10,886.38
2,125,140
3,056,120
17
Çanakkale
9,950.43
464,975
542,157
18
Çankırı
7,491.89
270,355
195,789
19
Çorum
12,796.21
597,065
530,864
20
Denizli
11,804.19
950,757
1,037,208
21
Diyarbakır
15,204.01
1,362,708
1,756,353
22
Edirne
6,097.91
402,606
413,903
23
Elazığ
9,281.45
569,616
591,098
24
Erzincan
11,727.55
316,841
234,747
25
Erzurum
25,330.90
937,389
762,062
26
Eskişehir
13,902.03
706,009
887,475
27
Gaziantep
6,844.84
1,285,249
2,069,364
28
Giresun
6,831.58
523,819
448,400
29
Gümüşhane
6,437.01
186,953
164,521
30
Hakkâri
7,178.88
236,581
280,991
31
Hatay
5,831.36
1,253,726
1,628,894
32
Isparta
8,871.08
513,681
444,914
33
Mersin
15,512.25
1,651,400
1,840,425
34
Istanbul
5,315.33
10,018,735
15,519,267
35
İzmir
12,015.61
3,370,866
4,367,251
36
Kars
10,139.09
325,016
285,410
37
Kastamonu
13,157.98
375,476
379,405
38
Kayseri
17,109.33
1,060,432
1,407,409
39
Kırklareli
6,299.78
328,461
361,836
40
Kırşehir
6,530.32
253,239
242,938
41
Kocaeli
3,625.29
1,206,085
2,033,441
42
Konya
40,813.52
2,192,166
2,232,374
43
Kütahya
12,013.57
656,903
579,257
44
Malatya
12,102.70
853,658
800,165
45
Manisa
13,228.50
1,260,169
1,440,611
46
Kahramanmaraş
14,456.74
1,002,384
1,154,102
47
Mardin
8,806.04
705,098
838,778
48
Muğla
12,949.21
715,328
1,000,773
49
Muş
8,067.16
453,654
408,809
50
Nevşehir
5,391.64
309,914
303,010
51
Niğde
7,365.29
348,081
362,861
52
Ordu
5,952.49
887,765
754,198
53
Rize
3,921.98
365,938
343,212
54
Sakarya
4,880.19
756,168
1,029,650
55
Samsun
9,364.10
1,209,137
1,348,542
56
Siirt
5,473.29
263,676
330,280
57
Sinop
5,816.55
225,574
218,243
58
Sivas
28,567.34
755,091
638,956
59
Tekirdağ
6,342.30
623,591
1,055,412
60
Tokat
10,072.62
828,027
612,747
61
Trabzon
4,664.04
975,137
808,974
62
Tunceli
7,685.66
93,584
84,660
63
Şanlıurfa
19,336.21
1,443,422
2,073,614
64
Uşak
5,363.09
322,313
370,509
65
Van
19,414.14
877,524
1,136,757
66
Yozgat
14,074.09
682,919
421,200
67
Zonguldak
3,309.86
615,599
596,053
68
Aksaray
7,965.51
396,084
416,567
69
Bayburt
3,739.08
97,358
84,843
70
Karaman
8,868.90
243,210
253,279
71
Kırıkkale
4,569.76
383,508
283,017
72
Batman
4,659.21
456,734
608,659
73
Şırnak
7,151.57
353,197
529,615
74
Bartın
2,080.36
184,178
198,249
75
Ardahan
4,967.63
133,756
97,319
76
Iğdır
3,587.81
168,634
199,442
77
Yalova
850.46
168,593
270,976
78
Karabük
4,108.80
225,102
248,958
79
Kilis
1,427.76
114,724
142,490
80
Osmaniye
3,195.99
458,782
538,759
81
Düzce
2,592.95
314,266
392,166
Codes
The province's ISO code suffix number, the first two digits of the vehicle registration plates of Turkey , and the first digits of the postal codes in Turkey are the same. The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) codes are different.
Defunct provinces
A 1927 map of the provinces of Turkey which was published before the alphabet reform
See also
References