Turkey provinces quiz

The 81 provinces in the quiz

Turkey has 81 provinces: 81 in the quiz. Use the Capitals button in the panel to find their capitals instead.

How to play

In Point mode we name a province and you tap it on the map; in Type mode one lights up and you type its name (accents don’t matter); and in Time trial you get 6 seconds per question. If you miss, we show you where it was, which way it lies and a hint drawn from the data: its size rank and its neighbors.

Each game has 10, 20 or all the questions, and at the end you can practice just the ones you missed. Your best score for each mode is saved in this browser only: neither we nor anyone else can see it, and there’s no sign-up.

The hardest ones

The smallest provinces are the hardest, since they barely show on the map: Yalova (about 270 sq mi), Kilis (about 520 sq mi), and Bartın (about 810 sq mi). Zoom in with the buttons or two fingers to tap them.

Tips to learn them

• The 6 provinces bordering Syria trace that border on the map: Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Mardin, Şanlıurfa, and Şırnak.

Playing in class

If you teach in Turkey, start with your school’s province and its neighbors and add a few each day. Otherwise, it’s a good way to get to know the country before studying it.

With the Challenge your class link, everyone gets the same questions in the same order, with no accounts or passwords, and each student sees their own score, time and streak. To practice on paper, there’s a printable worksheet of the same map with an answer key.

List of all 81 provinces

1. Adana Adana
2. Adıyaman Adıyaman
3. Afyonkarahisar Afyonkarahisar
4. Ağrı Ağrı
5. Aksaray Aksaray
6. Amasya Amasya
7. Ankara Ankara
8. Antalya Antalya
9. Ardahan Ardahan
10. Artvin Artvin
11. Aydın Aydın
12. Balıkesir Balıkesir
13. Bartın Bartın
14. Batman Batman
15. Bayburt Bayburt
16. Bilecik Bilecik
17. Bingöl Bingöl
18. Bitlis Bitlis
19. Bolu Bolu
20. Burdur Burdur
21. Bursa Bursa
22. Çanakkale Çanakkale
23. Çankırı Çankırı
24. Çorum Çorum
25. Denizli Denizli
26. Diyarbakır Diyarbakır
27. Düzce Düzce
28. Edirne Edirne
29. Elazığ Elazığ
30. Erzincan Erzincan
31. Erzurum Erzurum
32. Eskişehir Eskişehir
33. Gaziantep Gaziantep
34. Giresun Giresun
35. Gümüşhane Gümüşhane
36. Hakkâri Hakkâri
37. Hatay Antakya
38. Iğdır Iğdır
39. Isparta Isparta
40. Istanbul Istanbul
41. İzmir İzmir
42. Kahramanmaraş Kahramanmaraş
43. Karabük Karabük
44. Karaman Karaman
45. Kars Kars
46. Kastamonu Kastamonu
47. Kayseri Kayseri
48. Kilis Kilis
49. Kırıkkale Kırıkkale
50. Kırklareli Kırklareli
51. Kırşehir Kırşehir
52. Kocaeli İzmit
53. Konya Konya
54. Kütahya Kütahya
55. Malatya Malatya
56. Manisa Manisa
57. Mardin Mardin
58. Mersin Mersin
59. Muğla Muğla
60. Muş Muş
61. Nevşehir Nevşehir
62. Niğde Niğde
63. Ordu Ordu
64. Osmaniye Osmaniye
65. Rize Rize
66. Sakarya Adapazarı
67. Samsun Samsun
68. Şanlıurfa Şanlıurfa
69. Siirt Siirt
70. Sinop Sinop
71. Sivas Sivas
72. Şırnak Şırnak
73. Tekirdağ Tekirdağ
74. Tokat Tokat
75. Trabzon Trabzon
76. Tunceli Tunceli
77. Uşak Uşak
78. Van Van
79. Yalova Yalova
80. Yozgat Yozgat
81. Zonguldak Zonguldak