Provinces of Turkey - List of Provinces

List of Provinces

Ankara Kırklareli Edirne Tekirdağ Çanakkale Balıkesir Bursa Yalova Istanbul Kocaeli Sakarya Düzce Zonguldak Bolu Bilecik Eskişehir Kütahya Manisa İzmir Aydın Muğla Denizli Burdur Uşak Afyon Isparta Antalya Konya Mersin Karaman Aksaray Kırşehir Kırıkkale Çankırı Karabük Bartın Kastamonu Sinop Çorum Yozgat Nevşehir Niğde Adana Hatay Osmaniye K. Maraş Kayseri Sivas Tokat Amasya Samsun Ordu Giresun Erzincan Malatya Gaziantep Kilis Şanlıurfa Adıyaman Gümüşhane Trabzon Rize Bayburt Erzurum Artvin Ardahan Kars Ağrı Iğdır Tunceli Elâzığ Diyarbakır Mardin Batman Siirt Şırnak Bitlis Bingöl Muş Van Hakkâri

Provinces of the Republic of Turkey

License plate code	Name	Area (km²)	Province population	Population density (/km²)	Capital	Capital population	Census region
01	Adana	14,256	2,062,226	145	Adana (aggl.)	1,130,710	Mediterranean
02	Adıyaman	7,572	588,475	78	Adıyaman	178,538	Southeastern Anatolia
03	Afyonkarahisar	14,532	701,326	48	Afyon	128,516	Aegean
04	Ağrı	11,315	537,665	48	Ağrı	79,764	Eastern Anatolia
05	Amasya	5,731	365,231	63	Amasya	74,393	Black Sea
06	Ankara	25,615	5,017,914	156	Ankara (aggl.)	3,203,362	Central Anatolia
07	Antalya	20,599	1,719,751	83	Antalya	603,190	Mediterranean
08	Artvin	7,493	191,934	25	Artvin	23,157	Black Sea
09	Aydın	7,922	950,757	120	Aydın	142,267	Aegean
10	Balıkesir	14,442	1,076,347	74	Balıkesir	215,436	Marmara
11	Bilecik	4,181	194,326	46	Bilecik	34,105	Marmara
12	Bingöl	8,402	253,739	30	Bingöl	68,876	Eastern Anatolia
13	Bitlis	8,413	388,678	46	Bitlis	44,923	Eastern Anatolia
14	Bolu	10,716	270,654	25	Bolu	84,565	Black Sea
15	Burdur	7,238	256,803	35	Burdur	63,363	Mediterranean
16	Bursa	11,087	2,550,645	191	Bursa (aggl.)	2,249,974	Marmara
17	Çanakkale	9,887	464,975	47	Çanakkale	75,810	Marmara
18	Çankırı	8,411	270,355	32	Çankırı	62,508	Central Anatolia
19	Çorum	12,833	597,065	46	Çorum	161,321	Black Sea
20	Denizli	11,716	950,029	72	Denizli	350,000	Aegean
21	Diyarbakır	15,162	1,362,708	89	Diyarbakır	545,983	Southeastern Anatolia
22	Edirne	6,241	402,606	64	Edirne	119,298	Marmara
23	Elazığ	9,181	569,616	62	Elazığ	266,495	Eastern Anatolia
24	Erzincan	11,974	316,841	26	Erzincan	107,175	Eastern Anatolia
25	Erzurum	24,741	937,389	37	Erzurum	361,235	Eastern Anatolia
26	Eskişehir	13,904	706,009	50	Eskişehir	482,793	Central Anatolia
27	Gaziantep	7,194	1,285,249	178	Gaziantep (aggl.)	853,513	Southeastern Anatolia
28	Giresun	7,151	523,819	73	Giresun	83,636	Black Sea
29	Gümüşhane	6,125	186,953	30	Gümüşhane	30,270	Black Sea
30	Hakkâri	7,729	236,581	30	Hakkâri	58,145	Eastern Anatolia
31	Hatay	5,403	1,448,418	268	Antakya	202,216	Mediterranean
32	Isparta	8,733	513,681	58	Isparta	148,496	Mediterranean
33	Mersin	15,737	1,647,899	105	Mersin	859,680	Mediterranean
34	Istanbul	5,170	11,622,257	1,937	Istanbul (aggl.)	11,008,790	Marmara
35	İzmir	11,811	3,370,866	285	İzmir (aggl.)	2,232,265	Aegean
36	Kars	9,594	325,016	33	Kars	78,473	Eastern Anatolia
37	Kastamonu	13,473	375,476	27	Kastamonu	64,606	Black Sea
38	Kayseri	17,116	1,060,432	61	Kayseri (aggl.)	536,392	Central Anatolia
39	Kırklareli	6,056	328,461	54	Kırklareli	53,221	Marmara
40	Kırşehir	6,434	253,239	39	Kırşehir	88,105	Central Anatolia
41	Kocaeli	3,635	1,206,085	331	İzmit	195,699	Marmara
42	Konya	40,824	2,192,166	53	Konya (aggl.)	742,690	Central Anatolia
43	Kütahya	12,119	656,903	54	Kütahya	166,665	Aegean
44	Malatya	12,235	853,658	69	Malatya	381,081	Eastern Anatolia
45	Manisa	13,120	1,260,169	96	Manisa	214,345	Aegean
46	Kahramanmaraş	14,213	1,002,384	70	Kahramanmaraş	326,198	Mediterranean
47	Mardin	9,097	705,098	77	Mardin	65,072	Southeastern Anatolia
48	Muğla	12,716	715,328	56	Muğla	43,845	Aegean
49	Muş	8,023	453,654	56	Muş	67,927	Eastern Anatolia
50	Nevşehir	5,438	309,914	56	Nevşehir	67,864	Central Anatolia
51	Niğde	7,318	348,081	47	Niğde	78,088	Central Anatolia
52	Ordu	5,894	887,765	150	Ordu	112,525	Black Sea
53	Rize	3,792	365,938	96	Rize	78,144	Black Sea
54	Sakarya	4,895	756,168	154	Adapazarı	283,752	Marmara
55	Samsun	9,474	1,209,137	127	Samsun (aggl.)	363,180	Black Sea
56	Siirt	5,465	263,676	48	Siirt	98,281	Southeastern Anatolia
57	Sinop	5,858	225,574	38	Sinop	30,502	Black Sea
58	Sivas	28,129	755,091	26	Sivas	251,776	Central Anatolia
59	Tekirdağ	6,345	623,591	98	Tekirdağ	107,191	Marmara
60	Tokat	9,912	828,027	83	Tokat	113,100	Black Sea
61	Trabzon	4,495	975,137	216	Trabzon	214,949	Black Sea
62	Tunceli	7,406	93,584	12	Tunceli	25,041	Eastern Anatolia
63	Şanlıurfa	19,091	1,443,422	75	Şanlıurfa	385,588	Southeastern Anatolia
64	Uşak	5,174	322,313	62	Uşak	137,001	Aegean
65	Van	20,927	1,022,330	41	Van	284,464	Eastern Anatolia
66	Yozgat	14,083	682,919	48	Yozgat	73,930	Central Anatolia
67	Zonguldak	3,470	615,599	177	Zonguldak	104,276	Black Sea
68	Aksaray	8,051	396,084	49	Aksaray	129,949	Central Anatolia
69	Bayburt	4,043	97,358	24	Bayburt	32,285	Black Sea
70	Karaman	8,816	243,210	27	Karaman	105,384	Central Anatolia
71	Kırıkkale	4,589	383,508	83	Kırıkkale	205,078	Central Anatolia
72	Batman	4,671	456,734	97	Batman	246,678	Southeastern Anatolia
73	Şırnak	7,296	353,197	48	Şırnak	52,743	Southeastern Anatolia
74	Bartın	1,960	184,178	93	Bartın	35,992	Black Sea
75	Ardahan	5,495	133,756	24	Ardahan	17,274	Eastern Anatolia
76	Iğdır	3,584	168,634	47	Iğdır	59,880	Eastern Anatolia
77	Yalova	847	168,593	200	Yalova	70,118	Marmara
78	Karabük	2,420	225,102	93	Karabük	100,749	Black Sea
79	Kilis	1,642	114,724	70	Kilis	70,670	Southeastern Anatolia
80	Osmaniye	3,767	458,782	124	Osmaniye	173,977	Mediterranean
81	Düzce	3,641	314,261	90	Düzce	56,649	Black Sea

• Population data according to 2009 census.
• After Zonguldak (67) the ordering is not alphabetical but in the order of creation of provinces, because these provinces were recently created and named by the government, and their plate numbers were assigned thereafter.