Abstract:

Provinces, and districts as the sub divisions of provinces, and sub-districts that their functions ended are constitute the civil administration divisions of Turkey. Administration areas of villages and cities and towns and other fields take place on the ground of these administrative divisions. It is necessary that these administration areas, which were included in the areas of local governments according to the Turkey’s general administration body, should also be defined in civil administration division in terms of administrative geography. Structural characteristics of “administrative areas of provinces” that were taking as the base for planning studies regarding our country to be known and updating of the wrong and missing definitions that were taking place in the laws are especially needed. Information about place and importance of administrative geography in geographical sciences, its relation to administrative science have been given in this contribution, and then concepts and terms regarding the topic have been explained by making the analysis of civil administration divisions in Turkey in terms of administrative geography with the patterns that were chosen from some provinces such as Afyonkarahisar, Bursa, and Mersin

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