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The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 957 districts (ilçeler; sing. ilçe). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the kaza.
The district bears the same name as the district capital (with the exception of the district of Antakya (in Hatay)).[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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 confused 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.[citation needed]
Local government
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.[citation needed]
The smallest level of government are villages. They elect muhtars to care for specific administrative matters such as residence registration. Each quarter (mahalle) of a district center and belde has a muhtar as well, to handle specific administration problems. The designation slightly differs (köy muhtarı for village muhtar, mahalle muhtarı for quarter muhtar) and 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).[citation needed]
There are büyükşehir belediyesi (or greater municipality) for metropolises like İstanbul or İzmir. This consists of an extra administrative layer which is run by an elected head mayor, who oversees a number of municipalities and mayors.[citation needed]
List of districts with population
The districts and their populations (as of December 31, 2011) are listed below, by region and by province (with capital district in bold text).
In 16 provinces with greater municipality the total population of the province is not equal to the summation of all district populations. In greater municipalities some (in case of İstanbul and Kocaeli all) districts are within the capital city. Those intracity districts are shown as " (central district) " . The population in central districts is also shown in the boldface capital city. In greater municipalities, the actual population of the province is the sum of all district populations except the boldface capital city.[citation needed] (This is true only for 16 greater municipalities; Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Bursa, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, İstanbul, İzmir, Kayseri, Kocaeli, Konya, Mersin, Sakarya, Samsun. For the remaining 65 provinces the population figures for districts add up to total province population ) (see: Metropolitan centers in Turkey)
Contents
- 1 Local government
- 2 List of districts with population
- 2.1 Istanbul Region
- 2.2 Western Marmara Region
- 2.3 Aegean Region
- 2.4 Eastern Marmara Region
- 2.5 Western Anatolia
- 2.6 Mediterranean Region
- 2.7 Central Anatolia
- 2.8 Western Black Sea Region
- 2.9 Eastern Black Sea Region
- 2.10 Northeast Anatolia
- 2.11 Central-Eastern Anatolia
- 2.12 Southeastern Anatolia
- 2.13 See also
Istanbul Region
Istanbul Subregion
Istanbul Province
- Population: 13,624,240
- Adalar: 13,883
- Arnavutköy: 198,230
- Ataşehir: 387,502
- Avcılar: 383,736
- Bağcılar: 746,650
- Bahçelievler: 600,900
- Bakırköy: 220,663
- Başakşehir: 284,488
- Bayrampaşa: 269,709
- Beşiktaş: 187,053
- Beykoz: 274,284
- Beylikdüzü: 218,120
- Beyoğlu: 248,206
- Büyükçekmece: 192,843
- Çatalca: 63,379
- Çekmeköy: 183,013
- Esenler: 461,382
- Esenyurt: 500,027
- Eyüp: 345,790
- Fatih: 429,351
- Gaziosmanpaşa: 482,553
- Güngören: 309,135
- Kadıköy: 531,997
- Kağıthane: 419,865
- Kartal: 440,887
- Küçükçekmece: 711,112
- Maltepe: 452,099
- Pendik: 609,535
- Sancaktepe: 267,537
- Sarıyer: 287,309
- Şile: 28,847
- Silivri: 144,781
- Şişli: 320,763
- Sultanbeyli: 298,143
- Sultangazi: 483,225
- Tuzla: 197,230
- Ümraniye: 631,603
- Üsküdar: 532,182
- Zeytinburnu: 293,228
Western Marmara Region
Tekirdağ Subregion
Tekirdağ Province
- Population: 829,873
Edirne Province
- Population: 399,316
Kırklareli Province
- Population: 336,942
- Babaeski: 51,249
- Demirköy: 8,750
- Kırklareli: 87,798
- Kofçaz: 3,001
- Lüleburgaz: 136,783
- Pehlivanköy: 4,308
- Pınarhisar: 19,699
- Vize: 28,611
Balıkesir Subregion
Balıkesir Province
- Population: 1,154,314
- Ayvalık: 64,349
- Balıkesir: 331,788
- Balya: 14,716
- Bandırma: 138,206
- Bigadiç: 48,993
- Burhaniye: 51,910
- Dursunbey: 42,740
- Edremit: 125,018
- Erdek: 46,294
- Gömeç: 11,795
- Gönen: 73,637
- Havran: 28,050
- İvrindi: 35,914
- Kepsut: 25,443
- Manyas: 21,923
- Marmara: 8,206
- Savaştepe: 19,818
- Sındırgı: 37,446
- Susurluk: 41,069
Çanakkale Province
- Population: 486,445
Aegean Region
İzmir Subregion
İzmir Province
- Population: 3,965,232
- İzmir: 3,492,494
- Aliağa: 68,432
- Balçova: 77,941
- Bayındır: 41,105
- Bayraklı: 309,147
- Bornova: 418,837
- Buca: 436,989
- Çiğli: 163,774
- Foça: 32,476
- Gaziemir: 126,737
- Güzelbahçe: 25,335
- Karabağlar: 463,279
- Karşıyaka: 312,213
- Kemalpaşa: 93,431
- Konak: 397,201
- Menderes: 73,191
- Menemen: 134,889
- Narlıdere: 65,478
- Seferihisar: 30,890
- Selçuk: 34,643
- Torbalı: 133,089
- Urla: 53,417
- Northern districts
- Southern districts
- İzmir: 3,492,494
Aydın Subregion
Aydın Province
- Population: 999,163
Denizli Province
- Population: 942,278
Muğla Province
- Population: 838,324
Manisa Subregion
Manisa Province
- Population: 1,340,074
Afyonkarahisar Province
- Population: 698,626
Kütahya Province
- Population: 564,264
Uşak Province
- Population: 339,731
Eastern Marmara Region
Bursa Subregion
Bursa Province
- Population: 2,652,126
Bilecik Province
- Population: 203,849
Eskişehir Province
- Population: 781,247
- Eskişehir: 662,468
- Odunpazarı: 365,764
- Tepebaşı: 296,704
- Alpu: 12,757
- Beylikova: 6,557
- Çifteler: 16,392
- Günyüzü: 6,716
- Han: 2,187
- İnönü: 7,230
- Mahmudiye: 8,654
- Mihalgazi: 3,699
- Mihalıççık: 8,654
- Sarıcakaya: 5,353
- Seyitgazi: 15,783
- Sivrihisar: 23,423
- Eskişehir: 662,468
Kocaeli Subregion
Kocaeli Province
- Population: 1,601,720
Bolu Province
- Population: 276,506
Düzce Province
- Population: 342,146
Sakarya Province
- Population: 888,556
Yalova Province
- Population: 206,535
Western Anatolia
Ankara Subregion
Ankara Province
- Population: 4,890,893
- Ankara: 4,584,161
- Beypazarı: 47,018
- Çamlıdere: 6,993
- Evren: 3,227
- Güdül: 8,891
- Haymana: 32,705
- Kızılcahamam: 24,966
- Nallıhan: 30,351
- Polatlı: 119,510
- Şereflikoçhisar: 36,071
Konya Subregion
Konya Province
- Population: 2,038,555
- Konya: 1,122,007
- Ahırlı: 5,016
- Akören: 7,042
- Akşehir: 94,886
- Altınekin: 14,362
- Beyşehir: 69,966
- Bozkır: 29,914
- Çeltik: 10,791
- Cihanbeyli: 59,342
- Çumra: 64,597
- Derbent: 5,020
- Derebucak: 9,355
- Doğanhisar: 20,940
- Emirgazi: 9,609
- Ereğli: 136,346
- Güneysınır: 10,181
- Hadim: 15,374
- Halkapınar: 4,831
- Hüyük: 18,212
- Ilgın: 58,005
- Kadınhanı: 33,659
- Karapınar: 48,094
- Kulu: 55,573
- Sarayönü: 27,433
- Seydişehir: 64,088
- Taşkent: 7,753
- Tuzlukçu: 7,477
- Yalıhüyük: 2,029
- Yunak: 26,653
Karaman Province
- Population: 234,005
- Ayrancı: 9,186
- Başyayla: 4,497
- Ermenek: 30,361
- Karaman: 172,854
- Kazımkarabekir: 4,324
- Sarıveliler: 12,783
Mediterranean Region
Antalya Subregion
Antalya Province
- Population: 2,043,482
- Antalya: 1,088,044
- Aksu: 65,303
- Döşemealtı: 44,272
- Kepez: 419,997
- Konyaaltı: 127,084
- Muratpaşa: 431,348
- Akseki: 14,358
- Alanya: 259,787
- Demre: 25,384
- Elmalı: 37,901
- Finike: 46,256
- Gazipaşa: 48,184
- Gündoğmuş: 8,451
- İbradı: 3,076
- Kaş: 53,588
- Kemer: 38,302
- Korkuteli: 51,051
- Kumluca: 65,923
- Manavgat: 193,738
- Serik: 109,479
- Antalya: 1,088,044
Burdur Province
- Population: 250,527
Isparta Province
- Population: 411,245
Adana Subregion
Adana Province
- Population: 2,108,805
Mersin Province
- Population: 1,667,939
Hatay Subregion
Hatay Province
- Population: 1,474,223
Kahramanmaraş Province
- Population: 1,054,210
- Afşin: 84,244
- Andırın: 38,074
- Çağlayancerit: 26,257
- Ekinözü: 14,363
- Elbistan: 137,046
- Göksun: 54,024
- Kahramanmaraş: 545,704
- Nurhak: 14,099
- Pazarcık: 73,227
- Türkoğlu: 65,172
Osmaniye Province
- Population: 485,357
- Bahçe: 20,900
- Düziçi: 77,599
- Hasanbeyli: 4,489
- Kadirli: 116,644
- Osmaniye: 234,901
- Sumbas: 15,463
- Toprakkale: 15,361
Central Anatolia
Kırıkkale Subregion
Kırıkkale Province
- Population: 274,992
Aksaray Province
- Population: 378,823
Kırşehir Province
- Population: 221,015
Nevşehir Province
- Population: 283,247
Niğde Province
- Population: 337,553
Kayseri Subregion
Kayseri Province
- Population: 1,255,349
Sivas Province
- Population: 627,056
Yozgat Province
- Population: 465,696
- Akdağmadeni: 50,591
- Aydıncık: 11,347
- Boğazlıyan: 37,369
- Çandır: 5,371
- Çayıralan: 18,040
- Çekerek: 26,810
- Kadışehri: 15,530
- Saraykent: 18,046
- Sarıkaya: 38,378
- Şefaatli: 17,554
- Sorgun: 84,591
- Yenifakılı: 6,147
- Yerköy: 39,272
- Yozgat: 96,350
Western Black Sea Region
Zonguldak Subregion
Zonguldak Province
- Population: 612,406
Bartın Province
- Population: 187,291
- Amasra: 15,143
- Bartın: 141,802
- Kurucaşile: 7,322
- Ulus: 23,024
Karabük Province
- Population: 219,728
Kastamonu Subregion
Kastamonu Province
- Population: 359,759
- Abana: 3,504
- Ağlı: 2,944
- Araç: 19,639
- Azdavay: 7,392
- Bozkurt: 8,941
- Çatalzeytin: 6,808
- Cide: 20,087
- Daday: 9,481
- Devrekani: 13,267
- Doğanyurt: 7,446
- Hanönü: 4,071
- İhsangazi: 5,750
- İnebolu: 23,098
- Kastamonu: 125,787
- Küre: 6,881
- Pınarbaşı: 5,040
- Şenpazar: 5,148
- Seydiler: 4,087
- Taşköprü: 39,595
- Tosya: 40,795
Çankırı Province
- Population: 177,211
- Atkaracalar: 4,640
- Bayramören: 2,422
- Çankırı: 82,291
- Çerkeş: 15,303
- Eldivan: 5,509
- Ilgaz: 13,987
- Kızılırmak: 8,189
- Korgun: 3,884
- Kurşunlu: 9,170
- Orta: 12,304
- Şabanözü: 10,152
- Yapraklı: 8,730
Sinop Province
- Population: 203,027
Samsun Subregion
Samsun Province
- Population: 1,251,729
Amasya Province
- Population: 323,079
Çorum Province
- Population: 534,578
Tokat Province
- Population: 608,299
Eastern Black Sea Region
Trabzon Subregion
Trabzon Province
- Population: 757,353
Artvin Province
- Population: 166,394
Rize Province
- Population: 323,012
- Ardeşen: 40,700
- Çamlıhemşin: 6,089
- Çayeli: 42,030
- Derepazarı: 7,508
- Fındıklı: 15,927
- Güneysu: 12,850
- Hemşin: 2,154
- İkizdere: 5,568
- İyidere: 8,559
- Kalkandere: 11,738
- Pazar: 30,473
- Rize: 139,416
Ordu Subregion
Ordu Province
- Population: 714,390
Giresun Province
- Population: 419,498
Gümüşhane Province
- Population: 132,374
Northeast Anatolia
Erzurum Subregion
Erzurum Province
- Population: 780,847
- Erzurum: 395,472
- Aziziye: 50,817
- Palandöken: 161,155
- Yakutiye: 183,500
- Aşkale: 25,043
- Çat: 19,783
- Hınıs: 30,627
- Horasan: 43,806
- İspir: 16,551
- Karaçoban: 25,758
- Karayazı: 32,664
- Köprüköy: 18,291
- Narman: 16,257
- Oltu: 32,159
- Olur: 7,689
- Pasinler: 31,984
- Pazaryolu: 4,492
- Şenkaya: 21,424
- Tekman: 30,032
- Tortum: 20,560
- Uzundere: 8,255
- Erzurum: 395,472
Bayburt Province
Erzincan Province
- Population: 215,277
Ağrı Subregion
Ağrı Province
- Population: 555,479
Ardahan Province
- Population: 107,455
Iğdır Province
- Population: 188,857
- Aralık: 22,425
- Iğdır: 127,609
- Karakoyunlu: 14,054
- Tuzluca: 24,769
Kars Province
- Population: 305,755
Central-Eastern Anatolia
Malatya Subregion
Malatya Province
- Population: 757,930
Bingöl Province
- Population: 262,263
Elazığ Province
- Population: 558,556
Tunceli Province
- Population: 85,062
Van Subregion
Van Province
- Population: 1,022,532
Bitlis Province
- Population: 336,624
Hakkâri Province
Muş Province
- Population: 414,706
Southeastern Anatolia
Gaziantep Subregion
Gaziantep Province
- Population: 1,753,596
Adıyaman Province
- Population: 593,931
Kilis Province
Şanlıurfa Subregion
Şanlıurfa Province
- Population: 1,716,254
Diyarbakır Province
- Population: 1,570,943
Mardin Subregion
Mardin Province
- Population: 764,033
Batman Province
- Population: 524,499
Siirt Province
- Population: 310,468
Şırnak Province
- Population: 457,997
- Beytüşşebap: 17,836
- Cizre: 122,967
- Güçlükonak: 12,034
- İdil: 70,187
- Silopi: 112,582
- Şırnak: 85,369
- Uludere: 37,022
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