List of districts in Turkey

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.

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The provinces bear the same name as their respective provincial capital districts (with the exception of the district of Antakya (in Hatay). 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.

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. (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
Districts of Aydın
Denizli Province
Districts of Denizli
Muğla Province
Districts of Muğla

İzmir Subregion

İzmir Province
Districts of İzmir

Manisa Subregion

Afyonkarahisar Province
Districts of Afyonkarahisar
Kütahya Province
Districts of Kütahya
Manisa Province
Districts of Manisa
Uşak Province
Districts of Uşak

Central Anatolia

Kayseri Subregion

Kayseri Province
Districts of Kayseri
Sivas Province
Districts of Sivas
Yozgat Province
Districts of Yozgat

Kırıkkale Subregion

Aksaray Province
Districts of Aksaray
Kırıkkale Province
Districts of Kırıkkale
Kırşehir Province
Districts of Kırşehir
Nevşehir Province
Districts of Nevşehir
Niğde Province
Districts of Niğde

Central-Eastern Anatolia

Malatya Subregion

Bingöl Province
Districts of Bingöl
Elazığ Province
Districts of Elazığ
Malatya Province
Districts of Malatya
Tunceli Province
Districts of Tunceli

Van Subregion

Bitlis Province
Districts of Bitlis
Hakkâri Province
Districts of Hakkâri
Muş Province
Districts of Muş
Van Province
Districts of Van
  • Population: 1,136,757

Eastern Black Sea Region

Ordu Subregion

Giresun Province
Districts of Giresun
Gümüşhane Province
Districts of Gümüşhane
Ordu Province
Districts of Ordu

Trabzon Subregion

Artvin Province
Districts of Artvin
Rize Province
Districts of Rize
Trabzon Province
Districts of Trabzon

Eastern Marmara Region

Bursa Subregion

Bilecik Province
Districts of Bilecik
Bursa Province
Districts of Bursa
Eskişehir Province
Districts of Eskişehir

Kocaeli Subregion

Bolu Province
Districts of Bolu
Düzce Province
Districts of Düzce
Kocaeli Province
Districts of Kocaeli
Sakarya Province
Districts of Sakarya
Yalova Province
Districts of Yalova

Istanbul Region

Istanbul Subregion

Istanbul Province
Districts of İstanbul

Mediterranean Region

Adana Subregion

Adana Province
Districts of Adana
Mersin Province
Districts of Mersin

Antalya Subregion

Antalya Province
Districts of Antalya
Burdur Province
Districts of Burdur
Isparta Province
Districts of Isparta

Hatay Subregion

Hatay Province
Districts of Hatay
Kahramanmaraş Province
Districts of Kahramanmaraş
Osmaniye Province
Districts of Osmaniye

Northeast Anatolia

Ağrı Subregion

Ağrı Province
Districts of Ağrı
Ardahan Province
Districts of Ardahan
Iğdır Province
Districts of Iğdır
Kars Province
Districts of Kars

Erzurum Subregion

Bayburt Province
Districts of Bayburt
Erzincan Province
Districts of Erzincan
Erzurum Province
Districts of Erzurum

Southeastern Anatolia

Gaziantep Subregion

Adıyaman Province
Districts of Adıyaman
Gaziantep Province
Districts of Gaziantep
Kilis Province
Districts of Kilis

Mardin Subregion

Batman Province
Districts of Batman
Mardin Province
Districts of Mardin
Şırnak Province
Districts of Şırnak
Siirt Province
Districts of Siirt

Şanlıurfa Subregion

Diyarbakır Province
Districts of Diyarbakır
Şanlıurfa Province
Districts of Şanlıurfa

Western Anatolia

Ankara Subregion

Ankara Province
Districts of Ankara

Konya Subregion

Karaman Province
Districts of Karaman
Konya Province
Districts of Konya

Western Black Sea Region

Kastamonu Subregion

Çankırı Province
Districts of Çankırı
Kastamonu Province
Districts of Kastamonu
Sinop Province
Districts of Sinop

Samsun Subregion

Amasya Province
Districts of Amasya
Çorum Province
Districts of Çorum
Samsun Province
Districts of Samsun
Tokat Province
Districts of Tokat

Zonguldak Subregion

Bartın Province
Districts of Bartın
Karabük Province
Districts of Karabük
Zonguldak Province
Districts of Zonguldak

Western Marmara Region

Balıkesir Subregion

Balıkesir Province
Districts of Balıkesir
Çanakkale Province
Districts of Çanakkale

Tekirdağ Subregion

Edirne Province
Districts of Edirne
Kırklareli Province
Districts of Kırklareli
Tekirdağ Province
Districts of Tekirdağ
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