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What are the Provinces of Turkey?

Turkey is divided into 81 provinces (iller), each headed by a governor appointed by the national government. Every province is named after its capital city.

  • The provinces grew out of the provinces (vilayets) of the Ottoman Empire.
  • They were reorganized after the Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923.
  • Each has a vehicle registration code: the first 67 were numbered alphabetically, from 01 for Adana.
  • The rest were created between 1989 and 1999 by splitting existing provinces.
  • These include Batman and Şırnak in 1990, Ardahan and Iğdır in 1992, and Yalova, Karabük and Kilis in 1995.
  • Osmaniye followed in 1996, and Düzce, number 81, in 1999.

Current quiz contains 81 provinces. You will be randomly asked 30 of them: Adana, Adıyaman, Afyonkarahisar, Aksaray, Amasya, Ankara, Antalya, Ardahan, Artvin, Aydın, Ağrı, Balıkesir, Bartın, Batman, Bayburt, Bilecik, Bingöl, Bitlis, Bolu, Burdur, Bursa, Denizli, Diyarbakır, Düzce, Edirne, Elazığ, Erzincan, Erzurum, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Hakkari, Hatay, Isparta, Iğdır, Kahramanmaraş, Karabük, Karaman, Kars, Kastamonu, Kayseri, Kilis, Kocaeli, Konya, Kütahya, Kırklareli, Kırıkkale, Kırşehir, Malatya, Manisa, Mardin, Mersin, Muğla, Muş, Nevşehir, Niğde, Ordu, Osmaniye, Rize, Sakarya, Samsun, Siirt, Sinop, Sivas, Tekirdağ, Tokat, Trabzon, Tunceli, Uşak, Van, Yalova, Yozgat, Zonguldak, Çanakkale, Çankırı, Çorum, İstanbul, İzmir, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak.