İzmir In Figures

Now we will give you some information based on figures about İzmir, this Aegean city without match, the vital spirit of Turkey, the precious jewel of Turks. According to the latest census, İzmir has a population of 4 million 367 thousand 251 people representing an increase of 1.08% compared with the previous census, with 2 million 174 thousand 319 men and 2 million 192 thousand 932 women making up 49,79% and 50,21% of the population, respectively. Even though there seems to be an equal distribution between genders, the woman population that is larger than that of men has played an important role in respect of a higher level of culture and civilisation in the city.

At a location with latitude and longitude coordinates 38⁰.41273 N and 27⁰.13838 E and with an area of 7 thousand 340 km², the city of İzmir is the third biggest city in Turkey with respect to population density. The licence tag number of the province is 35, just after İstanbul, and the area dialling code is 0232; the district of Karşıyaka, however, claims to have a licence tag number of 35,5.

The region in and around İzmir predominantly has Mediterranean climate with typical flora characterised with hot and dry summers, and mild and rainy winter months. While temperature rarely falls below 0 ⁰C, being not more than 10 days throughout the year, the area experiences hot days over 30 ⁰C in about 100 days annually. Being characteristic of the climate, typical scrubland vegetation of Mediterranean maquis constitute the predominant flora in the region. Forests cover about 40% of the area in the province of İzmir, with a forest stand mainly with juniper trees, kermes oaks, holy oaks, olive groves, gum trees, terebinth berries, chinaberry trees, phllyrea and woadwaxen.

Another important point we should mention is that the province of İzmir is divided into 30 districts, being Aliağa, Balçova, Bayındır, Bayraklı, Bergama, Beydağ, Bornova, Buca, Çeşme, Çiğli, Dikili, Foça, Gaziemir, Güzelbahçe, Karabağlar, Karaburun, Karşıyaka, Kemalpaşa, Kınık, Kiraz, Konak, Menderes, Menemen, Narlıdere, Ödemiş, Seferihisar, Selçuk, Tire, Torbalı and Urla.