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Bursa Province Bursa ili
Province and metropolitan municipality
Pine trees seen from Uludağ Road
Location of the province within Turkey
Country	Turkey
Seat	Bursa
Government
• Mayor	Mustafa Bozbey (CHP)
• Vali	Mahmut Demirtaş
Area	10,813 km (4,175 sq mi)
Population	3,194,720
• Density	300/km (770/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Area code	0224
Website	www.bursa.bel.tr www.bursa.gov.tr

Bursa Province (Turkish: Bursa ili) is a province and metropolitan municipality in Turkey along the Sea of Marmara coast in northwestern Anatolia. It borders Balıkesir to the west, Kütahya to the south, Bilecik and Sakarya to the east, Kocaeli to the northeast and Yalova to the north. Its area is 10,813 km, and its population is 3,194,720 (2022). Its traffic code is 16.

Almost all of Bursa Province (including the city of Bursa) is in the Marmara Region, but the districts of Büyükorhan, Harmancık, Keles and Orhaneli are in the Aegean Region.

The city of Bursa was the capital of the Ottoman State between 1326 and 1365, until the Ottoman conquest of Edirne, then known as Adrianople. Adrianople was the capital until 1453, when Constantinople became the final Ottoman capital.

Geography

•   BSk
•   Csa
•   Csb
•   Cfa
•   Dsb
•   Dsc

Bursa mostly experiences a Mediterranean climate (Csa and Csb). Inner parts of the province are higher in elevation and show continental characteristics (Dsb and Dsc). Uludağ is the highest mountain in the province with 2,543 meters of elevation.

Districts

• Büyükorhan
• Gemlik
• Gürsu
• Harmancık
• İnegöl
• İznik
• Karacabey
• Keles
• Kestel
• Mudanya
• Mustafakemalpaşa
• Nilüfer
• Orhaneli
• Orhangazi
• Osmangazi
• Yenişehir
• Yıldırım

Demographics

See also

• City of Bursa
• İznik
• List of populated places in Bursa Province
• Places of interest in Bursa

References

1. ^ "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
2. "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
3. "Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution". Nature Scientific Data. DOI:10.1038/sdata.2018.214.
4. Genel Nüfus Sayımları
5. tuik

External links

• Pictures of the capital of this province

v t e Bursa Province of Turkey
Districts	Büyükorhan Gemlik Gürsu Harmancık İnegöl İznik Karacabey Keles Kestel Mudanya Mustafakemalpaşa Nilüfer Orhaneli Orhangazi Osmangazi Yenişehir Yıldırım
List of provinces by region Istanbul Istanbul West Marmara Balıkesir Çanakkale Edirne Kırklareli Tekirdağ Aegean Afyonkarahisar Aydın Denizli İzmir Kütahya Manisa Muğla Uşak East Marmara Bilecik Bolu Bursa Düzce Eskişehir Kocaeli Sakarya Yalova West Anatolia Ankara Karaman Konya Mediterranean Adana Antalya Burdur Hatay Isparta Kahramanmaraş Mersin Osmaniye Central Anatolia Aksaray Kayseri Kırıkkale Kırşehir Nevşehir Niğde Sivas Yozgat West Black Sea Amasya Bartın Çankırı Çorum Karabük Kastamonu Samsun Sinop Tokat Zonguldak East Black Sea Artvin Giresun Gümüşhane Ordu Rize Trabzon Northeast Anatolia Ağrı Ardahan Bayburt Erzincan Erzurum Iğdır Kars Central East Anatolia Bingöl Bitlis Elazığ Hakkâri Malatya Muş Tunceli Van Southeast Anatolia Adıyaman Batman Diyarbakır Gaziantep Kilis Mardin Siirt Şanlıurfa Şırnak
Metropolitan municipalities are bolded.

40°09′00″N 29°01′15″E / 40.15000°N 29.02083°E / 40.15000; 29.02083

• Bursa Province