Provinces of Turkey

Provinces of Turkey Türkiye'nin İlleri (Turkish)
Ankara Kırklareli Edirne Tekirdağ Çanakkale Balıkesir Bursa Yalova Istanbul Kocaeli Sakarya Düzce Zonguldak Bolu Bilecik Eskişehir Kütahya Manisa İzmir Aydın Muğla Denizli Burdur Uşak Afyon Isparta Antalya Konya Mersin Karaman Aksaray Kırşehir Kırıkkale Çankırı Karabük Bartın Kastamonu Sinop Çorum Yozgat Nevşehir Niğde Adana Hatay Osmaniye K. Maraş Kayseri Sivas Tokat Amasya Samsun Ordu Giresun Erzincan Malatya Gaziantep Kilis Şanlıurfa Adıyaman Gümüşhane Trabzon Rize Bayburt Erzurum Artvin Ardahan Kars Ağrı Iğdır Tunceli Elâzığ Diyarbakır Mardin Batman Siirt Şırnak Bitlis Bingöl Muş Van Hakkâri
Category	Unitary state
Location	Republic of Turkey
Number	81 Provinces
Populations	74,412 (Bayburt) – 14,377,018 (Istanbul Province)
Areas	850 km^2 (327 sq mi) (Yalova) – 38,260 km^2 (14,771 sq mi) (Konya)
Government	Provincal government, National government
Subdivisions	Ilçe

Turkey is divided into 81 provinces (Turkish: il / vilayet). Each province is divided into a number of different districts (ilçe). The provincial governorate is set in the central district (merkez ilçe). The central area usually bears the name of the province (e.g. the city of Van is the central district of Van Province). There are only 3 exceptions^[1] to this naming scheme:

• Antakya of Hatay province
• İzmit of Kocaeli province
• Adapazarı of Sakarya province

A province is administered by an appointed governor (vali) from the ministry of interior.

List of provinces

Below is a list of the 81 provinces of Turkey, sorted according to their license plate code. After Zonguldak (67) the ordering is not alphabetical but in the order of the creation of provinces, as these provinces were created more recently and thus their plate numbers were assigned thereafter.

Provinces of the Republic of Turkey

	Name	Area (km²)	Population (2000 census)	Population (2014 estimate)[2]
01	Adana	14,045.56	1,854,270	2,165,595
02	Adıyaman	7,606.16	623,811	597,835
03	Afyonkarahisar	14,718.63	812,416	706,371
04	Ağrı	11,498.67	528,744	549,435
05	Amasya	5,703.78	365,231	321,913
06	Ankara	25,401.94	4,007,860	5,150,072
07	Antalya	20,790.56	1,719,751	2,222,562
08	Artvin	7,367.10	191,934	169,674
09	Aydın	7,904.43	950,757	1,041,979
10	Balıkesir	14,472.73	1,076,347	1,189,057
11	Bilecik	4,306.77	194,326	209,925
12	Bingöl	8,253.51	253,739	266,019
13	Bitlis	7,094.50	388,678	338,023
14	Bolu	8,323.39	270,654	284,789
15	Burdur	7,134.95	256,803	256,898
16	Bursa	10,886.38	2,125,140	2,787,539
17	Çanakkale	9,950.43	464,975	511,790
18	Çankırı	7,491.89	270,355	183,550
19	Çorum	12,796.21	597,065	527,220
20	Denizli	11,804.19	950,757	978,700
21	Diyarbakır	15,204.01	1,362,708	1,635,048
22	Edirne	6,097.91	402,606	400,280
23	Elazığ	9,281.45	569,616	568,753
24	Erzincan	11,727.55	316,841	223,633
25	Erzurum	25,330.90	937,389	763,320
26	Eskişehir	13,902.03	706,009	812,320
27	Gaziantep	6,844.84	1,285,249	1,889,466
28	Giresun	6,831.58	523,819	429,984
29	Gümüşhane	6,437.01	186,953	146,353
30	Hakkâri	7,178.88	236,581	276,287
31	Hatay	5,831.36	1,253,726	1,519,836
32	Isparta	8,871.08	513,681	418,780
33	Mersin	15,512.25	1,651,400	1,727,255
34	Istanbul	5,315.33	10,018,735	14,377,018
35	İzmir	12,015.61	3,370,866	4,113,072
36	Kars	10,139.09	325,016	296,466
37	Kastamonu	13,157.98	375,476	368,907
38	Kayseri	17,109.33	1,060,432	1,322,376
39	Kırklareli	6,299.78	328,461	343,723
40	Kırşehir	6,530.32	253,239	222,707
41	Kocaeli	3,625.29	1,206,085	1,722,795
42	Konya	40,813.52	2,192,166	2,108,808
43	Kütahya	12,013.57	656,903	571,554
44	Malatya	12,102.70	853,658	769,544
45	Manisa	13,228.50	1,260,169	1,367,905
46	Kahramanmaraş	14,456.74	1,002,384	1,089,038
47	Mardin	8,806.04	705,098	788,996
48	Muğla	12,949.21	715,328	894,509
49	Muş	8,067.16	453,654	411,216
50	Nevşehir	5,391.64	309,914	286,250
51	Niğde	7,365.29	348,081	343,898
52	Ordu	5,952.49	887,765	724,268
53	Rize	3,921.98	365,938	329,779
54	Sakarya	4,880.19	756,168	932,706
55	Samsun	9,364.10	1,209,137	1,269,989
56	Siirt	5,473.29	263,676	318,366
57	Sinop	5,816.55	225,574	204,526
58	Sivas	28,567.34	755,091	623,116
59	Tekirdağ	6,342.30	623,591	906,732
60	Tokat	10,072.62	828,027	597,920
61	Trabzon	4,664.04	975,137	766,782
62	Tunceli	7,685.66	93,584	86,527
63	Şanlıurfa	19,336.21	1,443,422	1,845,667
64	Uşak	5,363.09	322,313	349,459
65	Van	19,414.14	877,524	1,085,542
66	Yozgat	14,074.09	682,919	432,560
67	Zonguldak	3,309.86	615,599	598,796
68	Aksaray	7,965.51	396,084	384,252
69	Bayburt	3,739.08	97,358	80,607
70	Karaman	8,868.90	243,210	240,362
71	Kırıkkale	4,569.76	383,508	271,092
72	Batman	4,659.21	456,734	557,593
73	Şırnak	7,151.57	353,197	488,966
74	Bartın	2,080.36	184,178	189,405
75	Ardahan	4,967.63	133,756	100,809
76	Iğdır	3,587.81	168,634	192,056
77	Yalova	850.46	168,593	226,514
78	Karabük	4,108.80	225,102	231,333
79	Kilis	1,427.76	114,724	128,781
80	Osmaniye	3,195.99	458,782	506,807
81	Düzce	2,592.95	314,266	355,549

Codes

The numbers of the ISO code, the first two digits of the vehicle registration plates of Turkey and the first digits of the postal codes in Turkey are the same. NUTS codes are different.

Name	ISO 3166-2	NUTS	Phone prefix
Adana	TR-01	TR621	322
Adıyaman	TR-02	TRC12	416
Afyonkarahisar	TR-03	TR332	272
Ağrı	TR-04	TRA21	472
Aksaray	TR-68	TR712	382
Amasya	TR-05	TR834	358
Ankara	TR-06	TR510	312
Antalya	TR-07	TR611	242
Ardahan	TR-75	TRA24	478
Artvin	TR-08	TR905	466
Aydın	TR-09	TR321	256
Balıkesir	TR-10	TR221	266
Bartın	TR-74	TR813	378
Batman	TR-72	TRC32	488
Bayburt	TR-69	TRA13	458
Bilecik	TR-11	TR413	228
Bingöl	TR-12	TRB13	426
Bitlis	TR-13	TRB23	434
Bolu	TR-14	TR424	374
Burdur	TR-15	TR613	248
Bursa	TR-16	TR411	224
Çanakkale	TR-17	TR222	286
Çankırı	TR-18	TR822	376
Çorum	TR-19	TR833	364
Denizli	TR-20	TR322	258
Diyarbakır	TR-21	TRC22	412
Düzce	TR-81	TR423	380
Edirne	TR-22	TR212	284
Elazığ	TR-23	TRB12	424
Erzincan	TR-24	TRA12	446
Erzurum	TR-25	TRA11	442
Eskisehir	TR-26	TR412	222
Gaziantep	TR-27	TRC11	342
Giresun	TR-28	TR903	454
Gümüşhane	TR-29	TR906	456
Hakkari	TR-30	TRB24	438
Hatay	TR-31	TR631	326
Iğdır	TR-76	TRA23	476
Isparta	TR-32	TR612	246
Istanbul-I (Thrace)	TR-34	TR100	212
Istanbul-II (Anatolia)	TR-34	TR100	216
İzmir	TR-35	TR310	232
Kahramanmaraş	TR-46	TR632	344
Karabük	TR-78	TR812	370
Karaman	TR-70	TR522	338
Kars	TR-36	TRA22	474
Kastamonu	TR-37	TR821	366
Kayseri	TR-38	TR721	352
Kilis	TR-79	TRC13	348
Kırıkkale	TR-71	TR711	318
Kırklareli	TR-39	TR213	288
Kırşehir	TR-40	TR715	386
Kocaeli (İzmit)	TR-41	TR421	262
Konya	TR-42	TR521	332
Kütahya	TR-43	TR333	274
Malatya	TR-44	TRB11	422
Manisa	TR-45	TR331	236
Mardin	TR-47	TRC31	482
Mersin	TR-33	TR622	324
Muğla	TR-48	TR323	252
Muş	TR-49	TRB22	436
Nevşehir	TR-50	TR714	384
Niğde	TR-51	TR713	388
Ordu	TR-52	TR902	452
Osmaniye	TR-80	TR633	328
Rize	TR-53	TR904	464
Sakarya (Adapazarı)	TR-54	TR422	264
Samsun	TR-55	TR831	362
Şanlıurfa	TR-63	TRC21	414
Siirt	TR-56	TRC34	484
Sinop	TR-57	TR823	368
Sivas	TR-58	TRC33	346
Şırnak	TR-73	TR722	486
Tekirdağ	TR-59	TR211	282
Tokat	TR-60	TR832	356
Trabzon	TR-61	TR901	462
Tunceli	TR-62	TRB14	428
Uşak	TR-64	TR334	276
Van	TR-65	TRB21	432
Yalova	TR-77	TR425	226
Yozgat	TR-66	TR723	354
Zonguldak	TR-67	TR811	372

Governors

Province	Name	Since
Adana	Hüseyin Avni Coş	2011
Adıyaman	Ramazan Sodan	2008
Afyonkarahisar	İrfan Balkanlıoğlu	2010
Ağrı	Ali Yerlikaya	2010
Aksaray	Orhan Alimoğlu	2008
Amasya	Abdil Celil Öz	2011
Ankara	Alâaddin Yüksel	2010
Antalya	Ahmet Altıparmak	2010
Ardahan	Mustafa Tekmen	2009
Artvin	Mustafa Yemlihalıoğlu	2009
Aydın	Kerem Al	2011
Balıkesir	Yılmaz Arslan	2009
Bartın	Halil Işık	2008
Batman	Ahmet Turhan	2009
Bayburt	Hasan İpek	2011
Bilecik	Halil İbrahim Akpınar	2010
Bingöl	Mustafa Hakan Güvençer	2010
Bitlis	Nurettin Yılmaz	2008
Bolu	İbrahim Özçimen	2010
Burdur	Süleyman Tapsız	2010
Bursa	Şahabettin Harput	2007
Çanakkale	Güngör Azim Tuna	2011
Çankırı	Şemsettin Uzun	2008
Çorum	Nurullah Çakır	2010
Denizli	Yavuz Erkmen	2008
Diyarbakır	Mustafa Toprak	2010
Düzce	Vasip Şahin	2010
Edirne	Gökhan Sözer	2010
Elazığ	Muammer Erol	2008
Erzincan	Abdulkadir Demir	2008
Erzurum	Sebahattin Öztürk	2009
Eskişehir	Mehmet Kılıçlar	2008
Gaziantep	Erdal Ata	2011
Giresun	Dursun Ali Şahin	2011
Gümüşhane	Yusuf Mayda	2011
Hakkari	Muammer Türker	2008
Hatay	Mehmet Celalettin Lekesiz	2009
Iğdır	Amir Çiçek	2010
Isparta	Memduh Oğuz	2010
Istanbul	Hüseyin Avni Mutlu	2010
İzmir	Mustafa Cahit Kıraç	2007
Kahramanmaraş	Şükrü Kocatepe	2010
Karabük	İzzettin Küçük	2010
Karaman	Süleyman Kahraman	2010
Kars	Ahmet Kara	2009
Kastamonu	Erdoğan Bektaş	2010
Kayseri	Mevlüt Bilici	2007
Kilis	Yusuf Odabaş	2011
Kırıkkale	Hakan Yusuf Güner	2009
Kırklareli	Cengiz Aydoğdu	2009
Kırşehir	Mehmet Ufuk Erden	2009
Kocaeli	Ercan Topaca	2010
Konya	Aydın Nezih Doğan	2009
Kütahya	Kenan Çiftçi	2010
Malatya	Ulvi Saran	2009
Manisa	Halil İbrahim Daşöz	2011
Mardin	Turhan Ayvaz	2011
Mersin (İçel)	Hasan Basri Güzeloğlu	2010
Muğla	Fatih Şahin	2010
Muş	Erdoğan Bektaş	2008
Nevşehir	Abdurrahman Savaş	2010
Niğde	Alim Barut	2009
Ordu	Ali Kaban	2008
Osmaniye	Celalettin Cerrah	2009
Rize	Seyfullah Hacımüftüoğlu	2009
Sakarya	Mustafa Büyük	2010
Samsun	Hüseyin Aksoy	2010
Siirt	Musa Çolak	2010
Şırnak	Vahdettin Özkan	2010
Sinop	Ahmet Cengiz	2010
Sivas	Ali Kolat	2009
Tekirdağ	Zübeyir Kemelek	2009
Tokat	Şerif Yılmaz	2009
Trabzon	Recep Kızılcık	2009
Tunceli	Osman Kaymak	2014
Şanlıurfa	Nuri Okutan	2009
Uşak	Özdemir Çakacak	2009
Van	Münir Karaloğlu	2009
Yalova	Osman Çapalı	2011
Yozgat	Necati Şentürk	2010
Zonguldak	Erol Ayyıldız	2011

Defunct provinces

A 1927 map of the provinces of Turkey

• Bayazıt, now part of Ağrı Province
• Çatalca, now part of Istanbul Province
• Elazığ Madeni, now part of Elazığ Province
• Gelibolu, now part of Çanakkale Province
• Genç, now part of Bingöl Province
• Kozan, now part of Adana Province
• Şebinkarahisar, now part of Giresun Province
• Siverek, now part of Şanlıurfa Province
• Silifke, now part of Mersin Province

See also

• Bucak
• Districts of Turkey
• Metropolitan centers in Turkey
• Regions of Turkey
• Villages of Turkey
• ISO 3166-2:TR
• Muhtar (title)

References

1. There were 4. The city of Mersin was previously under İçel province.
2. http://www.tuik.gov.tr/PreIstatistikTablo.do?istab_id=1595