add site
services
publishers
database
health videos
toolbar
stats
live show
health store
more stuff
JOIN/LOGIN
| advertise add site services publishers database health videos
| | about toolbar stats live show health store more stuff JOIN/LOGIN |
Turkey Travel Guide - Turkey Currency - Turkey Visa - Vaccinations for... medsolution.com | Liposuction Surgeons District of Columbia, Lipoplasty Doctors District... myliposuctionusa.com | IVF TURKEY - Downloads - IVF TURKEY ivfturkey.com |
 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): [edit] Aegean Region (Ege Bölgesi)[edit] İzmir Province
[edit] Manisa Province
[edit] Aydın Province
[edit] Denizli Province
[edit] Muğla Province
[edit] Afyonkarahisar Province
[edit] Kütahya Province
[edit] Uşak Province
[edit] Black Sea Region (Karadeniz Bölgesi)[edit] Samsun Province
[edit] Trabzon Province
[edit] Ordu Province
[edit] Zonguldak Province
[edit] Tokat Province
[edit] Çorum Province
[edit] Giresun Province
[edit] Kastamonu Province
[edit] Düzce Province
[edit] Amasya Province
[edit] Rize Province
[edit] Bolu Province
[edit] Karabük Province
[edit] Sinop Province
[edit] Bartın Province
[edit] Artvin Province
[edit] Gümüşhane Province
[edit] Bayburt Province [edit] Central Anatolia Region (İç Anadolu Bölgesi)Population: 11.459.292 [edit] Ankara Province
[edit] Konya Province
[edit] Kayseri Province
[edit] Eskişehir Province
[edit] Sivas Province
[edit] Yozgat Province
[edit] Aksaray Province
[edit] Niğde Province
[edit] Nevşehir Province
[edit] Kırıkkale Province
[edit] Karaman Province
[edit] Kırşehir Province
[edit] Çankırı Province
[edit] Eastern Anatolia Region (Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi)Population: 5.744.243 [edit] Van Province
[edit] Erzurum Province
[edit] Malatya Province
[edit] Elazığ Province
[edit] Ağrı Province
[edit] Muş Province
[edit] Bitlis Province
[edit] Kars Province
[edit] Hakkâri Province
[edit] Bingöl Province
[edit] Erzincan Province
[edit] Iğdır Province
[edit] Ardahan Province
[edit] Tunceli Province
[edit] Marmara Region (Marmara Bölgesi)Population: 21.044.783 [edit] İstanbul Province
[edit] Bursa Province
[edit] Kocaeli Province
[edit] Balıkesir Province
[edit] Sakarya Province
[edit] Tekirdağ Province
[edit] Çanakkale Province
[edit] Edirne Province
[edit] Kırklareli Province
[edit] Yalova Province
[edit] Bilecik Province
[edit] Mediterranean Region (Akdeniz Bölgesi)Population: 9.050.691 [edit] Adana Province
[edit] Antalya Province
[edit] Mersin Province
[edit] Hatay Province
[edit] Kahramanmaraş Province
[edit] Osmaniye Province
[edit] Isparta Province
[edit] Burdur Province
[edit] Southeastern Anatolia Region (Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi)Population: 7.350.752 [edit] Gaziantep Province
[edit] Şanlıurfa Province
[edit] Diyarbakır Province
[edit] Mardin Province
[edit] Adıyaman Province
[edit] Batman Province
[edit] Şırnak Province
[edit] Siirt Province
[edit] Kilis Province[edit] See also
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ↑ top of page ↑ | about thumbshots |
