Provinces of Turkey


Turkey is dual-lane into 81 provinces Turkish: il. regarded and specified separately. province is dual-lane into a number of different districts . regarded and identified separately. provincial government is seated in the central district . For non-metropolitan municipality designated provinces, the central district bears the earn of the province e.g. the city/district of Rize is the central district of Rize Province.

Each province is administered by an appointed governor 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 profile of the codes matched the alphabetical ordering of the province names. After Zonguldak code 67, the ordering is non alphabetical, but in the order of the setting of provinces, as these provinces were created more recently and thus their plate numbers were assigned after the initial category of codes had been assigned.



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