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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)).

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.

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.

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.

At the bottom end, there are villages, who have elected muhtars taking care of specific administrative matters such as residence registration. Furthermore, each quarter (mahalle) of a district center and belde has a muhtar as well, also for specific administrative questions. The designation slightly differs (köy muhtarı for village muhtar, mahalle muhtarı for quarter muhtar) and also 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). One final note is the büyükşehir belediyesi (or greater municipality) for metropolises like İstanbul or İzmir, an extra administrative layer which has at its top an elected head mayor, who oversee a number of municipalities and mayors.

The districts and their populations (as of December 31, 2008) are listed below, by region and by province (with capital district in bold text):

However, it should be noted that, in 16 provinces with greater municipality, the total population of 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 intercity districts are shown as " (central district) " . The population in central districts is also shown in the boldface capital city. So 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 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)

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[edit] Aegean Region (Ege Bölgesi)

[edit] İzmir Province

Districts of İzmir

[edit] Manisa Province

Districts of Manisa

[edit] Aydın Province

Districts of Aydın

[edit] Denizli Province

Districts of Denizli

[edit] Muğla Province

Districts of Muğla

[edit] Afyonkarahisar Province

Districts of Afyonkarahisar

[edit] Kütahya Province

Districts of Kütahya

[edit] Uşak Province

Districts of Uşak

[edit] Black Sea Region (Karadeniz Bölgesi)

[edit] Samsun Province

Districts of Samsun

[edit] Trabzon Province

Districts of Trabzon

[edit] Ordu Province

Districts of Ordu

[edit] Zonguldak Province

Districts of Zonguldak

[edit] Tokat Province

Districts of Tokat

[edit] Çorum Province

Districts of Çorum

[edit] Giresun Province

Districts of Giresun

[edit] Kastamonu Province

Districts of Kastamonu

[edit] Düzce Province

Districts of Düzce

[edit] Amasya Province

Districts of Amasya

[edit] Rize Province

Districts of Rize

[edit] Bolu Province

Districts of Bolu

[edit] Karabük Province

Districts of Karabük

[edit] Sinop Province

Districts of Sinop

[edit] Bartın Province

Districts of Bartın

[edit] Artvin Province

Districts of Artvin

[edit] Gümüşhane Province

Districts of Gümüşhane

[edit] Bayburt Province

Districts of Bayburt

[edit] Central Anatolia Region (İç Anadolu Bölgesi)

Population: 11.459.292

[edit] Ankara Province

Districts of Ankara

[edit] Konya Province

Districts of Konya

[edit] Kayseri Province

Districts of Kayseri

[edit] Eskişehir Province

Districts of Eskişehir

[edit] Sivas Province

Districts of Sivas

[edit] Yozgat Province

Districts of Yozgat

[edit] Aksaray Province

Districts of Aksaray

[edit] Niğde Province

Districts of Niğde

[edit] Nevşehir Province

Districts of Nevşehir

[edit] Kırıkkale Province

Districts of Kırıkkale

[edit] Karaman Province

Districts of Karaman

[edit] Kırşehir Province

Districts of Kırşehir

[edit] Çankırı Province

Districts of Çankırı

[edit] Eastern Anatolia Region (Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi)

Population: 5.744.243

[edit] Van Province

Districts of Van

[edit] Erzurum Province

Districts of Erzurum

[edit] Malatya Province

Districts of Malatya

[edit] Elazığ Province

Districts of Elazığ

[edit] Ağrı Province

Districts of Ağrı

[edit] Muş Province

Districts of Muş

[edit] Bitlis Province

Districts of Bitlis

[edit] Kars Province

Districts of Kars

[edit] Hakkâri Province

Districts of Hakkâri

[edit] Bingöl Province

Districts of Bingöl

[edit] Erzincan Province

Districts of Erzincan

[edit] Iğdır Province

Districts of Iğdır

[edit] Ardahan Province

Districts of Ardahan

[edit] Tunceli Province

Districts of Tunceli

[edit] Marmara Region (Marmara Bölgesi)

Population: 21.044.783

[edit] İstanbul Province

Districts of İstanbul

[edit] Bursa Province

Districts of Bursa

[edit] Kocaeli Province

Districts of Kocaeli
  • Total: 1.470.358 (all of the districts are "central district")

[edit] Balıkesir Province

Districts of Balıkesir

[edit] Sakarya Province

Districts of Sakarya

[edit] Tekirdağ Province

Districts of Tekirdağ

[edit] Çanakkale Province

Districts of Çanakkale

[edit] Edirne Province

Districts of Edirne

[edit] Kırklareli Province

Districts of Kırklareli

[edit] Yalova Province

Districts of Yalova

[edit] Bilecik Province

Districts of Bilecik

[edit] Mediterranean Region (Akdeniz Bölgesi)

Population: 9.050.691

[edit] Adana Province

Districts of Adana

[edit] Antalya Province

Districts of Antalya

[edit] Mersin Province

Districts of Mersin

[edit] Hatay Province

Districts of Hatay

[edit] Kahramanmaraş Province

Districts of Kahramanmaraş

[edit] Osmaniye Province

Districts of Osmaniye

[edit] Isparta Province

Districts of Isparta

[edit] Burdur Province

Districts of Burdur

[edit] Southeastern Anatolia Region (Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi)

Population: 7.350.752

[edit] Gaziantep Province

Districts of Gaziantep

[edit] Şanlıurfa Province

Districts of Şanlıurfa

[edit] Diyarbakır Province

Districts of Diyarbakır

[edit] Mardin Province

Districts of Mardin

[edit] Adıyaman Province

Districts of Adıyaman

[edit] Batman Province

Districts of Batman

[edit] Şırnak Province

Districts of Şırnak

[edit] Siirt Province

Districts of Siirt

[edit] Kilis Province

Kilis

[edit] See also

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