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This is a list of districts of Istanbul in Turkey (Turkish: İstanbul'un ilçeleri) as of 31 December 2023. [1] The number of the districts increased from 32 to 39 shortly before the 2009 local elections .
A 1927 map of the provinces of Turkey which was published before the alphabet reform. Çatalca, now part of Istanbul Province; Gelibolu, now part of Çanakkale Province; İçel , now part of Mersin Province; Kozan, now part of Adana Province; Şebinkarahisar, now part of Giresun Province; Elazığ Madeni, now part of Elazığ Province
English: Map of the administrative divisions of Turkey (geographical regions, provinces, districts, metropolitan municipalities) Türkçe: Türkiye'nin idari bölümleri haritası (coğrafi bölgeler, iller, ilçeler, büyükşehir belediyeleri)
Within this unitary framework, Turkey is subdivided into 81 provinces for administrative purposes. Each province is divided into districts, for a total of 973 districts. [2] Turkey is also subdivided into 7 regions and 21 subregions for geographic, demographic and economic purposes; this does not refer to an administrative division.
The geographical regions of Turkey comprise seven regions (Turkish: bölge), which were originally defined at the country's First Geography Congress in 1941. [1] The regions are subdivided into 31 sections (Turkish: bölüm), which are further divided into numerous areas (Turkish: yöre), as defined by microclimates and bounded by local geographic formations.
In many provinces, one district of a province is designated the central district (merkez ilçe) from which the district is administered. The central district is administered by an appointed provincial deputy governor and other non-central districts by an appointed sub-governor ( kaymakam ) from their district center ( ilçe merkezi ) municipality.
List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008; Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), which covers the subdivisions of the members of the European Union
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