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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 km2 (327 sq mi) (Yalova) – 38,260 km2 (14,771 sq mi) (Konya)
Government	Provincial government, National government
Subdivisions	İlçe

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

• 
  Adapazarı of Sakarya Province
  


• 
  Antakya of Hatay Province
  


• 
  İzmit of Kocaeli Province
  

Each province is administered by an appointed governor (vali) from the Ministry of the Interior.

List of provinces

Below is a list of the 81 provinces of Turkey, sorted according to their license plate codes. Initially, the order of the codes matched the alphabetical order of the province names. After Zonguldak (code 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 after the initial set of codes had been assigned.

Codes

The province's ISO code suffix number, the first two digits of the vehicle registration plates of Turkey, and the first digits of the postal codes in Turkey are the same. The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) codes are different.

Governors

Defunct provinces

A 1927 map of the provinces of Turkey

• 
  Çatalca, now part of Istanbul Province
  


• 
  Gelibolu, now part of Çanakkale Province
  


• 
  İçel (Silifke), now part of Mersin Province
  


• 
  Kozan, now part of Adana Province
  


• 
  Şebinkarahisar, now part of Giresun Province
  


• 
  Elazığ Madeni, now part of Elazığ Province
  


• 
  Genç, now part of Bingöl Province
  


• 
  Doğubeyazıt, now part of Ağrı Province
  


• 
  Siverek, now part of Şanlıurfa Province
  

See also

• Bucak


• Districts of Turkey


• Metropolitan centers in Turkey


• Regions of Turkey


• Villages of Turkey


• ISO 3166-2:TR


• Muhtar (title)

References