Provinces Of Turkey
Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, called il in Turkish (plural is iller, see Turkish alphabet for capitalization of i). The provinces are divided into a number of different districts. Each province has a government area (il merkezi) in the central district (merkez ilçe), and may include other districts (ilçe singular, ilçeler plural). In all but three cases, the government area bears the same name as the province. The exception is Antakya (in Hatay).
A province is administered by an appointed governor (vali), and was formerly termed a "governorate" (vilayet).
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