Turkey Subnational Administrative Boundaries for 81 Provinces and 973 Districts

January 2022 is the valid date for use by the humanitarian community. This dataset contains geospatial boundaries for Turkey at two administrative levels: 81 provinces and 973 districts. It was quality assured and published by OCHA Field Information Services (FIS) and HDX, and is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection.

Use Cases

• Create thematic maps for humanitarian needs assessment based on province and district boundaries.
• Conduct spatial analysis of socio-economic indicators based on the administrative division structure.
• Integrate boundary data into dashboards for regional monitoring based on the defined administrative hierarchy.
• Perform geospatial joins to aggregate point data to district or province levels based on the provided polygons.

Strengths

• Contains 81 provinces and 973 districts, providing detailed subnational coverage.
• Quality assured and published by OCHA FIS and HDX, suggesting a humanitarian data standard.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEODATABASE) and a tabular format (XLSX).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The underlying boundaries were created in March 2014, though validated for use in 2022.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS)

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official national sources as part of the Common Operational Datasets - Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB) program.

Time Range

Valid for use from January 2022.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:06:24.193199; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Turkey (admin level 0), with subnational coverage for provinces (level 1) and districts (level 2).