Usak (province)

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Usak
Province number: 64
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Basic data
Coordinates: 38 ° 31 '  N , 29 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 38 ° 31 '  N , 29 ° 21'  E
Provincial capital: Usak
Region: Aegean region
Surface: 5,556 km²
Population: 367,514 (2018)
Population density: 77.2 inhabitants / km²
Political
Governor: Funda Kocabıyık
Seats in Parliament: 3
Structural
Telephone code: 0276
Features : 64
Website
www.usak.gov.tr (Turkish)

Uşak is a province of Turkey with the capital of the same name, Uşak .

geography

The province has an area of ​​5,5565 km² and a population of over 360,000 people, of which over 200,000 live in the provincial capital. Uşak is located on the border between the Aegean region and Central Anatolia . The province is bounded in the north by the province of Kütahya , in the east by the province of Afyonkarahisar , in the south by the province of Denizli and in the west by the province of Manisa . The province's population share in the Aegean region is around 3.5 percent.

mountains

  • Elma Dağı - 1,805 m
  • Ahir Dağı - 1,940 m
  • Tahtalı Tepe - 1,644 m
  • Kocatepe - 1,298 m
  • Murat Dağı - 2,309 m
  • Bulkaz Dağı - 1,990 m

Administrative division

Counties

The province is divided into six districts ( İlçe )

district Area 1
(km²) 		Population (2018) 2 Number of Units Density
(Ew / km²) 		urban
share (in%) 		Sex
ratio 3 		Founding
date 4.5
District ( İlçe ) Administrative headquarters
(Merkez) 		Municipalities
(Belediye) 		City
quarter
(Mahalle) 		Villages
(Köy)
Banaz 1,114 36,373 16,376 2 9 46 50.2 32.65 1011 1953
Eşme 1,156 34,932 14,644 2 9 59 48.2 30.22 1019
Karahallı 330 10,457 5,884 1 6th 13 56.3 31.69 999 1953
Merkez Usak 1,655 252.044 223.246 1 30th 83 88.6 152.29 1009
Sivaslı 473 20,753 7.091 4th 12 18th 62.4 43.88 988 1953
Ulubey 828 12,955 6,596 1 7th 26th 50.9 15.65 1029 1953
PROVINCE OF Uşak 5,556 367,514 11 73 245 77.2 66.15 1009 1953

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1 Area 2014
2 Population update on December 31, 2018
3 Gender ratio : number of women per 1000 men (calculated)
4 PDF file of the Ministry of the Interior
5 districts that were only formed after Turkey was founded (1923).

Cities

In the province there are five municipalities ( Belediye ) that are not the seat of a district. The following table shows the population at the end of 2018 and the corresponding counties and the number of districts ( Mahalle ). The Turkish statistics rarely list the population of the cities (Belediye), but rather that of the city quarters (Mahalle).

Belediye district Number of
meals		 Residents
Yeleğen Eşme 3 2,189
Tartare Sivaslı 3 1,975
Pınarbaşı Sivaslı 2 1,964
Selçikler Sivaslı 2 1,922
Kızılcasöğüt Banaz 3 1,896

Villages

The 245 villages ( Köy ) have a total population of 83,731 inhabitants, which corresponds to about a quarter (20188: 22.78%) of the total population. Eleven villages in the province have more than a thousand inhabitants, four of which are in the capital district (İlçe Merkez). A village has an average of 342 inhabitants. Kaşbelen (3,931), İlyaslı (1,783) and Yayalar (1,695) are the largest villages in the province, three villages with 27 inhabitants are the smallest. 80 of the 245 villages have more than average, i. H. 342 pop.

population

In 1924 the city of Uşak still had 15,000 inhabitants. In Ulubey, Karahallı, and Banaz counties, the figure was 70,000. In 1926 the population rose from 85,000 to 91,298. From 1950 to 1955 the population increased by 68.1%, as the Eşme district was added to the Manisa Uşak province .

Results of the population extrapolation

The following table shows the annual population development after updating by the addressable population register (ADNKS) introduced in 2007. In addition, the population growth rate and sex ratio are ( Sex Ratio listed ie number of women per 1,000 men). The 2011 census found 340,636 inhabitants, over 18,000 more than in the 2000 census.

year Population at the end of the year Population growth
rate (in%)

 Gender
ratio
(women per
1000 men) 		Rank
(among 81 provinces)
total male Female
2018 367,514 182.931 184,583 0.70 1009 52
2017 364.971 181,898 183,073 1.74 1006 52
2016 358.736 179.259 179,477 1.61 1001 52
2015 353.048 176.281 176,767 1.03 1003 52
2014 349,459 174,231 175.228 0.85 1006 52
2013 346.508 172,573 173.935 1.24 1008 52
2012 342,269 169.997 172.272 0.75 1013 52
2011 339.731 169.343 170.388 0.51 1006 53
2010 338.019 168.064 169.955 0.64 1011 52
2009 335.860 166,944 168.916 0.52 1012 52
2008 334.111 165.506 168.605 0.00 1019 53
2007 334.115 165.235 168,880 - 1022 51
2000 322.313 159,804 162.509 1017 58

Census results

The following tables show the population of Uşak Province documented in the 9 censuses .
The values ​​up to 1960 are taken from e-books (from the original documents), the values ​​from 1965 onwards come from the data query of the Turkish Statistics Institute TÜIK - available on this website:

year population rank
province Turkey
1955 165.614 24,064,763 59
1960 184,733 27,754,820 59
1965 190,536 31,391,421 62
1970 207,512 35.605.176 62
1975 229,679 40,347,719 60
year population rank
province Turkey
1980 247.224 44,736,957 60
1985 271.261 50,664,458 59
1990 290.283 56.473.035 58
2000 322.313 67,803,927 58

Number of provinces in relation to the census years:

  • 1935: 57 provinces
  • 1955: 67 provinces
  • 1960 to 1985: 73 provinces
  • 1990: 73 provinces
  • 2000: 81 provinces

economy

45.34% of the people in the region work in agriculture. But the production is not enough for self-consumption. The province produces 147,150 tons of wheat, 231,990 tons of barley, 2,478 tons of oats and 2,105 tons of maize annually. 49 567 tons of peas are harvested in the Banaz district. In addition, 6,931 tons of tobacco are processed. Fruit and vegetables are grown exclusively in the Sivaslı district, where a strawberry festival is held every year . Uşak has the oldest sugar factory in Turkey, and the leather and ceramics industries are also important.

kitchen

Tarhana çorbası

Tarhana soup is very popular in the region . Ingredients are wheat flour , yogurt , onions, tomatoes, pepper. It is usually prepared for lunch.

Ground poppy seeds (Haşhaş)

Dried poppy seeds are ground into a paste with the help of oil, which is then prepared as a spread or something similar.

cucumber salad

Preparation: peel the ripe cucumber, cut into small pieces, cook with butter and onions. Sprinkle hot spices over it.

Web links

Commons : Uşak Province  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nufusu.com , accessed July 31, 2019
  2. ↑ Portrait of the governor on the province's website , accessed July 31, 2019
  3. ↑ Directorate General of Mapping İl ve İlçe Yüzölçümleri (PDF file 0.25 MB)
  4. ↑ Türkiye Nüfusu İl İlçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusu , accessed on July 31, 2019
  5. ↑ [1] TARİH (1) .pdf 1.4 MB
  6. ↑ Central Dissemination System from TÜIK Population of municipalities, villages and quarters , accessed on July 31, 2019
  7. ↑ Tokat Nüfusu , accessed July 31, 2019
  8. ↑ Genel Nüfus Sayımları (census results 1965 to 2000)