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There are 81 provinces in Turkey (Turkish: il). Among the 81 provinces, 30 provinces are designated metropolitan municipalities [1] (Turkish: büyükşehir belediyeleri). Metropolitan municipalities are subdivided into districts (Turkish: ilçe), where each district includes a corresponding district municipality, which is a second tier ...
The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality was established on 23 March 1984, [1] following the enactment of the metropolitan municipality act on 8 March 1984. [2] Initially, the municipality covered only the urban centers of Istanbul, which accounted for 35% of the Istanbul Province.
Province Municipalities Adana Province: List of municipalities in Adana Province: Adıyaman Province: List of municipalities in Adıyaman Province: Afyonkarahisar Province
Pages in category "Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 519 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Nevşehir Municipality, a "standard" municipality providing services in the provincial center of Nevşehir. For rural areas or other district centers, the Special Provincial Administration of Nevşehir and the corresponding district municipalities would provide service respectively, as Nevşehir hasn't achieved metropolitan municipality status.
Municipalities (Turkish: belediyeler) are the basic units of local government in Turkey. According to the Turkish Statistical Institute the population of Turkey was 76,667,864 as of 31 December 2013. [1] The majority of the population live in settlements with municipalities. The number of municipalities in Turkey was 2,947 in 2009.
Metropolitan municipalities are a form of local government with larger jurisdiction than municipalities in Turkey. These may be formed by presidential decree in any province with a provincial population (city center + outlying districts + villages) exceeding 750.000, as per the law governing metropolitan municipalities. [2]
As of the 2021 census, the Gaziantep province (Metropolitan municipality) was home to 2,130,432 inhabitants, of whom 1,775,904 lived in the metropolitan area made of two (out of three) urban districts of Şahinbey and Şehitkamil, as Oğuzeli is not conurbated. It is the sixth-most populous city in Turkey.