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