Thailand which are gathered into five groups of provinces by location. There are also two specially-governed districts: the capital Bangkok (Krung Thep Maha Nakhon) and Pattaya. Bangkok is at provincial level and thus often counted as a province. Each province is divided into districts and the districts are further divided into sub-districts (tambons). there were 878 districts (อำเภอ, amphoe) and the 50 districts of Bangkok (, khet), which is further divided into 7,255 subdistricts (, tambon) in the 76 provinces or Bangkok's subdistricts (แขวง, khwaeng). Some parts of the provinces bordering Bangkok are also referred to as Greater Bangkok (, pari
Provinces of Turkey Provinces of Turkey Turkey is divided into 81 provinces (). Each province is divided into a number of different districts (). Each provincial government is seated in the central district (). The central district usually bears the name of the province (e.g. the city of Van is the central district of Van Province). There are only three exceptions to this naming scheme: Each province is administered by an appointed governor () from the Ministry of the Interior. Below is a list of the 81 provinces of Turkey, sorted according to their license plate codes. Initially, the order of the codes