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Subdivisions of Turkey
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Turkey
is subdivided in a hierarchical manner to subdivisions;
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
is subdivided in a hierarchical manner to subdivisions;
- ProvincesProvinces of TurkeyTurkey is divided into 81 provinces, called il in Turkish .A province is administered by an appointed governor , and was formerly termed a "governorate" ....
- DistrictsDistricts of TurkeyThe 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 957 districts . In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the kaza....
- Villages
- Neighbourhoods
- Villages
- Districts
- Turkey is also subdivided into 7 geographical Census-Defined Regions
Census-Defined Regions
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Provinces
Districts
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See also
- Regions of TurkeyRegions of TurkeyThe provinces of Turkey are organized into 7 census-defined regions , which were originally defined at the First Geography Congress in 1941. Regions as defined in this context is merely for statistical purposes and do not refer to an administrative division. Each region is listed below, with...
- Provinces of TurkeyProvinces of TurkeyTurkey is divided into 81 provinces, called il in Turkish .A province is administered by an appointed governor , and was formerly termed a "governorate" ....
- Districts of TurkeyDistricts of TurkeyThe 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 957 districts . In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the kaza....
- Villages of Turkey
- Metropolitan centers in TurkeyMetropolitan centers in TurkeyThis is a list of Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey. There are 81 provinces in Turkey . Among the 81 provincial centers 16 of them are called metropolitan municipalities . Within city borders of the metropolitan municipalities, there are more than one district governorate. where each...
- Neighbourhoods
- ISO 3166-2 codes of TurkeyISO 3166-2:TRISO 3166-2:TR is the entry for Turkey in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Turkey, ISO 3166-2 codes are...
- FIPS region codes of Turkey (standard withdrawn in 2008)
- NUTS of TurkeyNUTS of TurkeyAs a candidate country of the European Union, Turkey is included in the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics . The three NUTS levels are:* NUTS-1: 12 Regions * NUTS-2: 26 Sub-regions...