List of districts in Turkey
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The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (ilçeler; sing. ilçe). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the kaza.
The provinces bear the same name as their respective provincial capital districts (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 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 the non-central districts by an appointed sub-governor (kaymakam) from their district center (ilçe merkezi) municipality. In 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).
Local government[]
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.
There are büyükşehir belediyesi (or greater municipalities) for large cities like İstanbul or İzmir and consist of an extra administrative layer 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, 2019) 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 30 greater municipalities; Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Aydın, Balıkesir, Bursa, Denizli, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Hatay, İstanbul, İzmir, Kahramanmaraş, Kayseri, Kocaeli, Konya, Malatya, Manisa, Mardin, Mersin, Muğla, Ordu, Sakarya, Samsun, Şanlıurfa, Tekirdağ, Trabzon, Van. For the remaining 51 provinces the population figures for districts add up to the total province population. See Metropolitan centers in Turkey)
Aegean Region[]
Aydın Subregion[]
Aydın Province[]
- Population: 1,110,972
Denizli Province[]
- Population: 1,037,208
Muğla Province[]
- Population: 983,142
İzmir Subregion[]
İzmir Province[]
- Population: 4,367,251
- İzmir: 2,972,900
- Balçova: 79,681
- Bayraklı: 312,264
- Bornova: 450,992
- Buca: 510,695
- Çiğli: 200,211
- Gaziemir: 137,808
- Güzelbahçe: 33,725
- Karabağlar: 480,925
- Karşıyaka: 349,290
- Konak: 351,572
- Narlıdere: 65,737
- Northern districts
- Southern districts
- İzmir: 2,972,900
Manisa Subregion[]
Afyonkarahisar Province[]
- Population: 729,483
Kütahya Province[]
- Population: 579,257
Manisa Province[]
- Population: 1,440,611
- Ahmetli: 16,525
- Akhisar: 173,026
- Alaşehir: 104,622
- Demirci: 40,048
- Gölmarmara: 15,212
- Gördes: 27,703
- Kırkağaç: 38,459
- Köprübaşı: 13,185
- Kula: 44,001
- Şehzadeler: 171,138
- Yunusemre: 246,440
- Salihli: 162,787
- Sarıgöl: 35,890
- Saruhanlı: 55,340
- Selendi: 19,781
- Soma: 109,946
- Turgutlu: 166,418
Uşak Province[]
- Population: 370,509
Central Anatolia[]
Kayseri Subregion[]
Kayseri Province[]
- Population: 1,407,409
Sivas Province[]
- Population: 638,956
Yozgat Province[]
- Population: 421,200
- Akdağmadeni: 42,621
- Aydıncık: 10,079
- Boğazlıyan: 34,269
- Çandır: 4,450
- Çayıralan: 12,563
- Çekerek: 19,467
- Kadışehri: 11,277
- Saraykent: 12,486
- Sarıkaya: 32,489
- Şefaatli: 15,371
- Sorgun: 79,533
- Yenifakılı: 5,386
- Yerköy: 35,476
- Yozgat: 106,280
Kırıkkale Subregion[]
Aksaray Province[]
- Population: 416,367
Kırıkkale Province[]
- Population: 283,017
- Bahsili: 7,399
- Balışeyh: 6,478
- Çelebi: 2,633
- Delice: 9,075
- Karakeçili: 3,369
- Keskin: 17,620
- Kırıkkale: 198,477
- Sulakyurt: 6,953
- Yahşihan: 31,013
Kırşehir Province[]
- Population: 242,938
Nevşehir Province[]
- Population: 303,010
Niğde Province[]
- Population: 362,861
Central-Eastern Anatolia[]
Malatya Subregion[]
Bingöl Province[]
- Population: 279,812
Elazığ Province[]
- Population: 591,098
Malatya Province[]
- Population: 800,615
Tunceli Province[]
- Population: 84,660
- Çemişgezek: 7,877
- Hozat: 6,255
- Mazgirt: 7,778
- Nazımiye: 3,189
- Ovacık: 6,696
- Pertek: 11,063
- Pülümür: 3,375
- Tunceli: 38,427
Van Subregion[]
Bitlis Province[]
- Population: 348,115
- Adilcevaz: 30,499
- Ahlat: 40,699
- Bitlis: 70,699
- Güroymak: 47,829
- Hizan: 33,331
- Mutki: 31,867
- Tatvan: 93,189
Hakkâri Province[]
Muş Province[]
- Population: 408,809
Van Province[]
- Population: 1,136,757
Eastern Black Sea Region[]
Ordu Subregion[]
Giresun Province[]
- Population: 448,400
Gümüşhane Province[]
- Population: 164,521
Ordu Province[]
- Population: 754,198
Trabzon Subregion[]
Artvin Province[]
- Population: 170,815
Rize Province[]
- Population: 343,212
- Ardeşen: 41,106
- Çamlıhemşin: 7,147
- Çayeli: 44,351
- Derepazarı: 7,653
- Fındıklı: 16,678
- Güneysu: 15,596
- Hemşin: 2,478
- İkizdere: 7,135
- İyidere: 8,554
- Kalkandere: 13,708
- Pazar: 31,190
- Rize: 147,411
Trabzon Province[]
- Population: 808,974
Eastern Marmara Region[]
Bursa Subregion[]
Bilecik Province[]
- Population: 219,427
Bursa Province[]
- Population: 3,056,120
- Gürsu: 93,788
- Kestel: 68,204
- Nilüfer: 465,956
- Osmangazi: 876,048
- Yıldırım: 657,994
- Büyükorhan: 9,666
- Gemlik: 113,493
- Harmancık: 6,384
- İnegöl: 273,933
- İznik: 43,531
- Karacabey: 83,923
- Keles: 11,987
- Mudanya: 97,631
- Mustafakemalpaşa: 101,119
- Orhaneli: 19,387
- Orhangazi: 79,145
- Yenişehir: 53,921
Eskişehir Province[]
- Population: 887,475
- Alpu: 10,974
- Beylikova: 6,400
- Çifteler: 14,878
- Odunpazarı: 413,461
- Tepebaşı: 370,150
- Günyüzü: 5,671
- Han: 2,117
- İnönü: 6,514
- Mahmudiye: 7,808
- Mihalgazi: 3,137
- Mihalıççık: 8,171
- Sarıcakaya: 4,854
- Seyitgazi: 13,009
- Sivrihisar: 20,330
Kocaeli Subregion[]
Bolu Province[]
- Population: 316,126
Düzce Province[]
- Population: 392,166
Kocaeli Province[]
- Population: 1,953,035
Sakarya Province[]
- Population: 1,029,650
Yalova Province[]
- Population: 270,976
- Altınova: 29,237
- Armutlu: 9,543
- Çınarcık: 34,343
- Çiftlikköy: 41,882
- Termal: 6,903
- Yalova: 149,068
Istanbul Region[]
Istanbul Subregion[]
Istanbul Province[]
- Population: 15,519,267
- Anatolian Side
- European Side
- Arnavutköy: 282,488
- Avcılar: 448,882
- Bağcılar: 745,125
- Bahçelievler: 611,059
- Bakırköy: 229,239
- Başakşehir: 460,259
- Bayrampaşa: 274,735
- Beşiktaş: 182,649
- Beylikdüzü: 352,412
- Beyoğlu: 233,323
- Büyükçekmece: 254,103
- Çatalca: 73,718
- Esenler: 450,344
- Esenyurt: 954,579
- Eyüpsultan: 400,513
- Fatih: 443,090
- Gaziosmanpaşa: 491,962
- Güngören: 289,441
- Kağıthane: 448,025
- Küçükçekmece: 792,821
- Sarıyer: 347,214
- Silivri: 193,680
- Sultangazi: 534,565
- Şişli: 279,817
- Zeytinburnu: 293,574
Mediterranean Region[]
Adana Subregion[]
Adana Province[]
- Population: 2,237,940
Mersin Province[]
- Population: 1,840,425
- Anamur: 66,068
- Aydıncık: 11,023
- Bozyazı: 26,595
- Çamlıyayla: 8,326
- Erdemli: 141,476
- Gülnar: 25,420
- Akdeniz: 262,265
- Mezitli: 204,240
- Toroslar: 303,010
- Yenişehir: 266,117
- Mut: 62,639
- Silifke: 120,873
- Tarsus: 342,373
Antalya Subregion[]
Antalya Province[]
- Population: 2,511,700
- Akseki: 11,484
- Alanya: 327,503
- Aksu: 73,220
- Döşemealtı: 65,794
- Kepez: 556,033
- Konyaaltı: 190,043
- Muratpaşa: 510,368
- Demre: 26,362
- Elmalı: 38,972
- Finike: 48,534
- Gazipaşa: 50,555
- Gündoğmuş: 7,737
- İbradı: 3,032
- Kaş: 59,716
- Kemer: 46,143
- Korkuteli: 55,352
- Kumluca: 70,423
- Manavgat: 241,011
- Serik: 129,418
Burdur Province[]
- Population: 270,796
Isparta Province[]
- Population: 444,914
- Aksu: 4,557
- Atabey: 5,761
- Eğirdir: 31,632
- Gelendost: 15,298
- Gönen: 7,185
- Isparta: 264,426
- Keçiborlu: 14,152
- Senirkent: 11,395
- Sütçüler: 10,295
- Şarkikaraağaç: 25,151
- Uluborlu: 6,287
- Yalvaç: 46,688
- Yenişarbademli: 2,087
Hatay Subregion[]
Hatay Province[]
- Population: 1,628,894
Kahramanmaraş Province[]
- Population: 1,154,102
- Afşin: 80,447
- Andırın: 32,503
- Çağlayancerit: 23,133
- Ekinözü: 11,221
- Elbistan: 141,538
- Göksun: 52,255
- Dulkadiroğlu: 222,673
- Onikişubat: 431,848
- Nurhak: 12,279
- Pazarcık: 69,097
- Türkoğlu: 77,112
Osmaniye Province[]
- Population: 538,759
- Bahçe: 22,155
- Düziçi: 84,133
- Hasanbeyli: 4,782
- Kadirli: 125,083
- Osmaniye: 268,647
- Sumbas: 13,840
- Toprakkale: 20,119
Northeast Anatolia[]
Ağrı Subregion[]
Ağrı Province[]
- Population: 536,199
- Ağrı: 151,083
- Diyadin: 41,512
- Doğubayazıt: 119,807
- Eleşkirt: 32,593
- Hamur: 18,152
- Patnos: 122,850
- Taşlıçay: 20,029
- Tutak: 30,173
Ardahan Province[]
- Population: 97,319
Iğdır Province[]
Kars Province[]
- Population: 285,410
Erzurum Subregion[]
Bayburt Province[]
Erzincan Province[]
- Population: 234,747
Erzurum Province[]
- Population: 762,062
- Aşkale: 23,152
- Aziziye: 63,502
- Çat: 16,708
- Palandöken: 172,332
- Yakutiye: 186,993
- Hınıs: 26,212
- Horasan: 38,837
- İspir: 14,959
- Karaçoban: 23,322
- Karayazı: 27,762
- Köprüköy: 15,784
- Narman: 13,326
- Oltu: 30,511
- Olur: 6,469
- Pasinler: 28,691
- Pazaryolu: 3,975
- Şenkaya: 17,511
- Tekman: 25,723
- Tortum: 18,135
- Uzundere: 8,153
Southeastern Anatolia[]
Gaziantep Subregion[]
Adıyaman Province[]
- Population: 626,465
Gaziantep Province[]
- Population: 2,069,364
Kilis Province[]
Mardin Subregion[]
Batman Province[]
- Population: 608,659
Mardin Province[]
- Population: 838,778
Şırnak Province[]
- Population: 529,615
- Beytüşşebap: 16,330
- Cizre: 148,697
- Güçlükonak: 12,295
- İdil: 76,895
- Silopi: 136,749
- Şırnak: 93,989
- Uludere: 44,660
Siirt Province[]
- Population: 330,280
- Baykan: 25,275
- Eruh: 18,931
- Kurtalan: 60,180
- Pervari: 30,858
- Siirt: 168,659
- Şirvan: 22,117
- Tillo: 4,260
Şanlıurfa Subregion[]
Diyarbakır Province[]
- Population: 1,756,353
Şanlıurfa Province[]
- Population: 2,073,614
- Akçakale: 115,615
- Birecik: 95,128
- Bozova: 55,423
- Ceylanpınar: 89,020
- Halfeti: 40,827
- Harran: 89,798
- Hilvan: 42,724
- Eyyübiye: 379,852
- Haliliye: 381,877
- Karaköprü: 219,796
- Siverek: 260,970
- Suruç: 102,261
- Viranşehir: 200,261
Western Anatolia[]
Ankara Subregion[]
Ankara Province[]
- Population: 5,639,076
- Akyurt: 36,123
- Altındağ: 389,510
- Çankaya: 944,609
- Etimesgut: 587,052
- Gölbaşı: 138,944
- Keçiören: 939,161
- Mamak: 665,978
- Pursaklar: 150,488
- Sincan: 535,637
- Yenimahalle: 687,093
- Ayaş: 13,900
- Bala: 30,280
- Beypazarı: 48,371
- Çamlıdere: 9,825
- Çubuk: 90,764
- Elmadağ: 45,557
- Evren: 3,097
- Güdül: 8,892
- Haymana: 30,930
- Kahramankazan: 54,806
- Kalecik: 13,234
- Kızılcahamam: 28,350
- Nallıhan: 27,579
- Polatlı: 125,075
- Şereflikoçhisar: 33,821
Konya Subregion[]
Karaman Province[]
- Population: 253,279
- Ayrancı: 7,965
- Başyayla: 3,650
- Ermenek: 28,565
- Karaman: 197,276
- Kazımkarabekir: 4,328
- Sarıveliler: 11,495
Konya Province[]
- Population: 2,232,374
- Ahırlı: 4,753
- Akören: 5,838
- Akşehir: 93,885
- Altınekin: 14,351
- Beyşehir: 74,469
- Bozkır: 25,894
- Cihanbeyli: 51,748
- Çeltik: 9,713
- Çumra: 67,282
- Derbent: 4,267
- Derebucak: 6,031
- Doğanhisar: 15,810
- Emirgazi: 8,535
- Ereğli: 146,998
- Güneysınır: 9,288
- Hadim: 12,015
- Halkapınar: 4,066
- Hüyük: 15,652
- Ilgın: 54,228
- Kadınhanı: 32,144
- Karapınar: 49,978
- Karatay: 338,976
- Meram: 344,546
- Selçuklu: 662,808
- Kulu: 50,825
- Sarayönü: 27,026
- Seydişehir: 64,822
- Taşkent: 6,296
- Tuzlukçu: 6,529
- Yalıhüyük: 1,629
- Yunak: 21,972
Western Black Sea Region[]
Kastamonu Subregion[]
Çankırı Province[]
- Population: 195,789
- Atkaracalar: 5,534
- Bayramören: 2,924
- Çankırı: 97,882
- Çerkeş: 16,792
- Eldivan: 6,460
- Ilgaz: 14,098
- Kızılırmak: 7,304
- Korgun: 4,626
- Kurşunlu: 8,466
- Orta: 11,978
- Şabanözü: 11,869
- Yapraklı: 7,856
Kastamonu Province[]
- Population: 379,405
- Abana: 4,113
- Ağlı: 3,094
- Araç: 18,670
- Azdavay: 7,324
- Bozkurt: 9,468
- Cide: 22,196
- Çatalzeytin: 7,055
- Daday: 8,319
- Devrekani: 12,658
- Doğanyurt: 5,651
- Hanönü: 4,060
- İhsangazi: 5,381
- İnebolu: 20,980
- Kastamonu: 152,553
- Küre: 5,774
- Pınarbaşı: 5,841
- Seydiler: 4,019
- Şenpazar: 4,523
- Taşköprü: 37,815
- Tosya: 39,916
Sinop Province[]
- Population: 218,243
Samsun Subregion[]
Amasya Province[]
- Population: 337,800
- Amasya: 150,828
- Göynücek: 10,207
- Gümüşhacıköy: 23,402
- Hamamözü: 3,802
- Merzifon: 72,277
- Suluova: 46,649
- Taşova: 30,635
Çorum Province[]
- Population: 530,864
Samsun Province[]
- Population: 1,348,542
- Alaçam: 25,430
- Asarcık: 16,778
- Ayvacık: 20,443
- Bafra: 142,761
- Çarşamba: 138,544
- Havza: 39,656
- Kavak: 21,074
- Ladik: 16,368
- Ondokuz Mayıs: 25,893
- Salıpazarı: 19,990
- Atakum: 215,633
- Canik: 99,149
- İlkadım: 338,614
- Tekkeköy: 52,935
- Terme: 71,492
- Vezirköprü: 95,097
- Yakakent: 8,685
Tokat Province[]
- Population: 612,747
- Almus: 27,658
- Artova: 8,374
- Başçiftlik: 8,323
- Erbaa: 95,611
- Niksar: 65,308
- Pazar: 13,330
- Reşadiye: 43,870
- Sulusaray: 7,598
- Tokat: 199,815
- Turhal: 79,604
- Yeşilyurt: 8,969
- Zile: 54,297
Zonguldak Subregion[]
Bartın Province[]
- Population: 198,249
- Amasra: 14,151
- Bartın: 155,765
- Kurucaşile: 6,621
- Ulus: 21,712
Karabük Province[]
- Population: 248,458
Zonguldak Province[]
- Population: 596,053
Western Marmara Region[]
Balıkesir Subregion[]
Balıkesir Province[]
- Population: 1,228,620
- Ayvalık: 70,720
- Altıeylül: 181,206
- Karesi: 183,084
- Balya: 12,937
- Bandırma: 156,787
- Bigadiç: 49,926
- Burhaniye: 60,490
- Dursunbey: 35,122
- Edremit: 155,837
- Erdek: 32,120
- Gömeç: 14,195
- Gönen: 74,183
- Havran: 27,857
- İvrindi: 32,492
- Kepsut: 23,142
- Manyas: 18,936
- Marmara: 9,730
- Savaştepe: 17,844
- Sındırgı: 33,253
- Susurluk: 38,704
Çanakkale Province[]
- Population: 542,157
Tekirdağ Subregion[]
Edirne Province[]
- Population: 413,903
Kırklareli Province[]
- Population: 361,836
- Babaeski: 47,944
- Demirköy: 8,856
- Kırklareli: 103,042
- Kofçaz: 2,308
- Lüleburgaz: 149,184
- Pehlivanköy: 3,505
- Pınarhisar: 18,456
- Vize: 28,541
Tekirdağ Province[]
- Population: 1,055,412
- Çerkezköy: 174,529
- Çorlu: 270,944
- Ergene: 63,821
- Hayrabolu: 32,268
- Kapaklı: 120,489
- Malkara: 52,453
- Marmaraereğlisi: 26,007
- Muratlı: 29,028
- Saray: 49,605
- Süleymanpaşa: 204,001
- Şarköy: 32,267
See also[]
- List of regions in Turkey
- List of provinces in Turkey
- List of cities and towns in Turkey
- List of villages in Turkey
- Subdivisions of Turkey
- Lists of subdivisions of Turkey
- Administrative divisions in Asia
- Administrative divisions in Europe
- Second-level administrative divisions by country