Villages of Turkey

A village (Turkish: köy, karye in the Ottoman era) is the second smallest settlement unit in Turkey.

The 51 regular provinces of Turkey and 30 province-level metropolitan municipalities are divided into districts.

A 2013 reform converted all 16,803 villages in the metropolitan municipalities, into neighborhoods (Turkish: mahalle) of the districts.

[1][2] Remaining villages are in the rural areas of the districts in regular provinces, and have about 8.7% of the country's population.

[4] During the early years of the Turkish Republic, subdistricts called bucak had been established for the villages in remote areas.