Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey

This is a list of Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey. There are 81 provinces in Turkey (Turkish: il) . Among the 81 provincial centers 16 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, two metropolitan municipalities (İstanbul and Kocaeli) encompass the whole province. The other metropolitan municipalities encompass a part of provincial area and majority of provincial population.

The list of Metropolitan areas in Turkey

Metropolitan municipalities	Plate No.[3]	Population[4]	Districts[5]
Adana	01	1,591,518	Çukurova, Karaisalı, Sarıçam, Seyhan, Yüreğir
Ankara	06	4,431,719	Altındağ, Akyurt, Ayaş, Bala, Çankaya, Çubuk, Elmadağ, Etimesgut, Gölbaşı, Kalecik , Kazan, Keçiören, Mamak, Pursaklar, Sincan, Yenimahalle
Antalya	07	1,001,318	Aksu, Döşemealtı, Kepez, Konyaaltı, Muratpaşa
Bursa	16	1,905,570	Gemlik, Gürsu, Kestel, Mudanya, Nilüfer, Osmangazi, Yıldırım
Diyarbakır	21	843,460	Bağlar, Kayapınar, Sur, Yenişehir
Erzurum	25	367,250	Aziziye, Palandöken, Yakutiye
Eskişehir	26	629,609	Odunpazarı, Tepebaşı
Gaziantep	27	1,341,054	Şahinbey, Şehitkamil, Oğuzeli
Mersin [6]	33	843,429	Akdeniz, Mezitli, Toroslar, Yenişehir
İstanbul	34	13,120,596	Adalar, Arnavutköy, Ataşehir, Avcılar, Bağcılar, Bahçelievler, Bakırköy, Başakşehir, Bayrampaşa, Beşiktaş, Beykoz, Beylikdüzü, Beyoğlu, Büyükçekmece, Çatalca, Çekmeköy, Esenler- Esenyurt, Eyüp, Fatih, Gaziosmanpaşa, Güngören, Kadıköy, Kağıthane- Kartal, Küçükçekmece, Maltepe, Pendik, Sancaktepe, Sarıyer, Silivri- Sultanbeyli, Sultangazi, Şile, Şişli, Tuzla, Ümraniye- Üsküdar, Zeytinburnu
İzmir	35	3,354,934	Aliağa, Balçova, Bayındır, Bayraklı, Bornova- Buca, Çiğli, Foça, Gaziemir, Güzelbahçe, Karabağlar, Karşıyaka- Kemalpaşa, Konak, Menderes, Menemen, Narlıdere- Seferihisar, Selçuk, Torbalı, Urla
Kayseri	38	950,017	Hacılar, İncesu, Kocasinan, Melikgazi, Talas
Kocaeli[7]	41	1,459,772[8]	Başiskele, Çayırova, Darıca, Derince, Dilovası, Gebze, Gölcük, İzmit, Kandıra, Karamürsel, Kartepe, Körfez
Konya	42	1,036,027	Karatay, Meram, Selçuklu
Sakarya[9]	54	560,876	Adapazarı, Akyazı, Arifiye, Erenler, Ferizli, Hendek, Karapürçek, Sapanca, Serdivan, Söğütlü
Samsun	55	531,997	Atakum, Canik, İlkadım, Tekkeköy

See also

• Elections for Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey

Notes and references

1. ^ Statistical Institute page
2. ^ Law act no 5216 (Turkish)
3. ^ Each province has a different traffic plate number between 01-81
4. ^ Population (Statistical Institute page) as of 2010.
5. ^ Districts (Statistical Institute page)
6. ^ Former name of the province was İçel
7. ^ The former name of the provincial center was İzmit. Now İzmit is the administrative centre of the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality
8. ^ Population of whole province, the population of the city is 294,875
9. ^ The former name of the provincial center was Adapazarı. Now Adapazarı is the administrative center of the Sakarya Metropolitan Municipality.