Provinces of Turkey

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Provinces of Turkey are called iller in Turkish (singular is il, see Turkish alphabet for capitalization of i).

A province is administered by an appointed governor (vali), and was formerly termed a "governorate".

Each province has a government center (il merkezi) in the central district (merkez ilçe), and may include other districts (ilçe singular, ilçeler plural). The government center usually bears the same name as the province; the exceptions are Antakya (in Hatay), İzmit (in Kocaeli), and Adapazarı (in Sakarya).

A district may cover both rural and urban areas. The central district is administered by an appointed "vice-governor" and other districts by a "sub-governor" (kaymakam). Each municipality (belediye) in its urban zone (belde) is an administrative division subject to elections depending on the province.

[edit] List of provinces and centers

**Provinces of the Republic of Turkey**
licence code	name	area	population	pop./km²	capital	population
01	Adana	14,256 km²	1,849,478	129,73	Adana (aggl.)	1,130,710
02	Adıyaman	7,572 km²	623,811	82,38	Adıyaman	178,538
03	Afyonkarahisar	14,532 km²	812,416	55,91	Afyon	128,516
04	Ağrı	11,315 km²	528,744	46,73	Ağrı	79,764
05	Amasya	5,731 km²	365,231	63,73	Amasya	74,393
06	Ankara	25,615 km²	4,007,860	156,47	Ankara (aggl.)	3,203,362
07	Antalya	20,599 km²	1,719,751	83,49	Antalya	603,190
08	Artvin	7,493 km²	191,934	25,62	Artvin	23,157
09	Aydın	7,922 km²	950,757	120,01	Aydın	142,267
10	Balıkesir	14,442 km²	1,076,347	74,53	Balıkesir	215,436
11	Bilecik	4,181 km²	194,326	46,48	Bilecik	34,105
12	Bingöl	8,402 km²	253,739	30,20	Bingöl	68,876
13	Bitlis	8,413 km²	388,678	46,20	Bitlis	44,923
14	Bolu	10,716 km²	270,654	25,26	Bolu	84,565
15	Burdur	7,238 km²	256,803	35,48	Burdur	63,363
16	Bursa	11,087 km²	2,125,140	191,68	Bursa (aggl.)	1,194,687
17	Çanakkale	9,887 km²	464,975	47,03	Çanakkale	75,810
18	Çankırı	8,411 km²	270,355	32,14	Çankırı	62,508
19	Çorum	12,833 km²	597,065	46,53	Çorum	161,321
20	Denizli	11,716 km²	850,029	72,55	Denizli	275,480
21	Diyarbakır	15,162 km²	1,362,708	89,88	Diyarbakır	545,983
22	Edirne	6,241 km²	402,606	64,51	Edirne	119,298
23	Elazığ	9,181 km²	569,616	62,04	Elazığ	266,495
24	Erzincan	11,974 km²	316,841	26,46	Erzincan	107,175
25	Erzurum	24,741 km²	937,389	37,89	Erzurum	361,235
26	Eskişehir	13,904 km²	706,009	50,78	Eskişehir	482,793
27	Gaziantep	7,194 km²	1,285,249	178,66	Gaziantep (aggl.)	853,513
28	Giresun	7,151 km²	523,819	73,25	Giresun	83,636
29	Gümüşhane	6,125 km²	186,953	30,52	Gümüşhane	30,270
30	Hakkari	7,729 km²	236,581	30,61	Hakkari	58,145
31	Hatay	5,678 km²	1,253,726	220,80	Antakya	144,910
32	Isparta	8,733 km²	513,681	58,82	Isparta	148,496
33	İçel	15,737 km²	1,651,400	104,94	Mersin	537,842
34	İstanbul	5,170 km²	10,018,735	1,937,86	İstanbul (aggl.)	8,803,468
35	İzmir	11,811 km²	3,370,866	285,40	İzmir (aggl.)	2,232,265
36	Kars	9,594 km²	325,016	33,88	Kars	78,473
37	Kastamonu	13,473 km²	375,476	27,87	Kastamonu	64,606
38	Kayseri	17,116 km²	1,060,432	61,96	Kayseri (aggl.)	536,392
39	Kırklareli	6,056 km²	328,461	54,24	Kırklareli	53,221
40	Kırşehir	6,434 km²	253,239	39,36	Kırşehir	88,105
41	Kocaeli	3,635 km²	1,206,085	331,80	İzmit	195,699
42	Konya	40,824 km²	2,192,166	53,70	Konya (aggl.)	742,690
43	Kütahya	12,119 km²	656,903	54,20	Kütahya	166,665
44	Malatya	12,235 km²	853,658	69,77	Malatya	381,081
45	Manisa	13,120 km²	1,260,169	96,05	Manisa	214,345
46	Kahramanmaraş	14,213 km²	1,002,384	70,53	Kahramanmaraş	326,198
47	Mardin	9,097 km²	705,098	77,51	Mardin	65,072
48	Muğla	12,716 km²	715,328	56,25	Muğla	43,845
49	Muş	8,023 km²	453,654	56,54	Muş	67,927
50	Nevşehir	5,438 km²	309,914	56,99	Nevşehir	67,864
51	Niğde	7,318 km²	348,081	47,57	Niğde	78,088
52	Ordu	5,894 km²	887,765	150,62	Ordu	112,525
53	Rize	3,792 km²	365,938	96,50	Rize	78,144
54	Sakarya	4,895 km²	756,168	154,48	Adapazarı	283,752
55	Samsun	9,474 km²	1,209,137	127,63	Samsun	363,180
56	Siirt	5,465 km²	263,676	48,25	Siirt	98,281
57	Sinop	5,858 km²	225,574	38,51	Sinop	30,502
58	Sivas	28,129 km²	755,091	26,84	Sivas	251,776
59	Tekirdağ	6,345 km²	623,591	98,28	Tekirdağ	107,191
60	Tokat	9,912 km²	828,027	83,54	Tokat	113,100
61	Trabzon	4,495 km²	975,137	216,94	Trabzon	214,949
62	Tunceli	7,406 km²	93,584	12,64	Tunceli	25,041
63	Şanlıurfa	19,091 km²	1,443,422	75,61	Şanlıurfa	385,588
64	Uşak	5,174 km²	322,313	62,29	Uşak	137,001
65	Van	20,927 km²	877,524	41,93	Van	284,464
66	Yozgat	14,083 km²	682,919	48,49	Yozgat	73,930
67	Zonguldak	3,470 km²	615,599	177,41	Zonguldak	104,276
68	Aksaray	8,051 km²	396,084	49,20	Aksaray	129,949
69	Bayburt	4,043 km²	97,358	24,08	Bayburt	32,285
70	Karaman	8,816 km²	243,210	27,59	Karaman	105,384
71	Kırıkkale	4,589 km²	383,508	83,57	Kırıkkale	205,078
72	Batman	4,671 km²	456,734	97,78	Batman	246,678
73	Şırnak	7,296 km²	353,197	48,41	Şırnak	52,743
74	Bartın	1,960 km²	184,178	93,97	Bartın	35,992
75	Ardahan	5,495 km²	133,756	24,34	Ardahan	17,274
76	Iğdır	3,584 km²	168,634	47,05	Iğdır	59,880
77	Yalova	403 km²	168,593	418,34	Yalova	70,118
78	Karabük	2,864 km²	225,102	78,60	Karabük	100,749
79	Kilis	1,239 km²	114,724	92,59	Kilis	70,670
80	Osmaniye	3,189 km²	458,782	143,86	Osmaniye	173,977
81	Düzce	1,065 km²	314,266	295,09	Düzce	56,649

Population data according to 2000 census.
After Zonguldak the ordering is according to traffic plate numbers of provinces, rather than alphabetical, because the provinces were newly created and named by the government.

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