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With the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Istanbul Province having equivalent jurisdictions, few responsibilities remain for the provincial government. Like the MMI, the Istanbul Special Provincial Administration has a governor, a democratically elected decision-making body—the Provincial Parliament—and an appointed Executive Committee.
For non-metropolitan municipality designated provinces, the central district bears the name of the province (e.g. the city/district of Rize is the central district of Rize Province). In the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the vilayet. Each province is administered by an appointed governor from the Ministry of the Interior.
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 .
Istanbul is Turkey's most developed and most populous city. ... Province Region Population Year Ranking change 2022–2023 Change 1 Istanbul: Marmara: 15,655,924 2023
Greater municipalities (büyükşehir belediyesi) exist for large cities like Istanbul and İzmir that consist of an extra administrative layer run by an elected head mayor, who oversee the municipalities and mayors within the province. Currently, 30 provinces are administered by greater municipalities in addition to having separate ...
İstanbul Province. Below is the list of populated places in Istanbul Province, Turkey by the districts. All districts of Istanbul Province are considered as a part of Greater Istanbul and most districts have no populated places other than the district center itself. In the following lists first place in each list is the administrative center ...
Istanbul holds special importance for Erdogan as he rose to the national political stage during his time as mayor between 1994 and 1998. Imamoglu has emerged as the opposition's main alternative ...
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.