Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey
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This is a list of Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey. There are 81 provinces in Turkey (Turkish: il) . Among the 81 provincial centers 29 of them are called metropolitan municipalities[1] (Turkish: Büyükşehir, Anakent). Within city borders of the metropolitan municipalities, there are more than one district governorate.(Turkish: ilçe) where each governorate has a municipality which is a vassal [2] of the metropolitan municipality. Actually, all metropolitan municipalities encompass the whole province.
List of metropolitan areas in Turkey [edit]
See also [edit]
Notes and references [edit]
- ^ Statistical Institute page
- ^ Law act no 5216 (Turkish)
- ^ Statistical Institute page)
- ^ Former name of the province was İçel
- ^ The former name of the provincial center was İzmit. Now İzmit is the administrative centre of the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality
- ^ Population of whole province, the population of the city is 294,875
- ^ The former name of the provincial center was Adapazarı. Now Adapazarı is the administrative center of the Sakarya Metropolitan Municipality.
