|subdivision_type             = Kintra
|subdivision_name             = [[Turkey]]
|subdivision_type1            = [[Leet o regions o Turkey|Region]]
|subdivision_name1            = [[Marmara Region|Marmara]]
|subdivision_type2            = [[Provinces o Turkey|Province]]
|subdivision_name2            = [[Istanbul Province|Istanbul]]
|leader_party                 = [[CHP]]
|leader_title                 = Mayor
|leader_name                  = [[Ekrem İmamoğlu]]
|established_title            = Established
|established_date             =
|established_title1           = &nbsp;-&nbsp;[[Byzantium]]
|established_date1            = c. 660 BC
|established_title2           = &nbsp;-&nbsp;<small>[[Constantinople]]</small>
|established_date2            = 330 AD
|established_title3           = &nbsp;-&nbsp;Istanbul
|established_date3            = 1453 ([[Ottoman Turkis leid|Ottoman Turkis]])<br />1923 ([[Turkis leid|Modren Turkis]])<br />1930 (internaitionally)
|parts_type                   = Destricts
|parts                        = 39
|area_metro_km2               = 5343
|area_metro_mi2               = 2063
|area_metro_footnotes         = 
| population_metro=14,377,019
| population_urban=14,100,000
| population_total=14,025,646
| population_as_of=December 31, 2014
| population_footnotes=<ref name=citypolution.de>{{cite web|title=Tukey:Provinces and Major Cities|quote=The population of the Turkish cities and provinces according to census results and latest register-based tabulations|url=http://www.citypopulation.de/Turkey-C20.html|website=www.citytpopulation.de|publisher=Citypopulation|date=31 December 2014|accessdate=26 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=All urban agglomerations of the world with a population of 1 million inhabitants or more|url=http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html|website=www.citypopulation.de|publisher=Citypopulation|date=1 April 2015|accessdate=26 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Population of Turkey">{{cite web|url=http://www.turkstat.gov.tr/HbGetirHTML.do?id=18616|publisher=[[Turkish Statistical Institute]]|title=The Results of Address Based Population Registration System, 2014|date=31 December 2014|accessdate=29 January 2015}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
| population_rank=[[Leet o ceeties in Turkey|1st]]
| population_density_km2=12029 - 7664
| population_density_metro_km2=2691
|timezone                     = [[Eastren European Time|EET]]
|utc_offset                   = +2
|timezone_DST                 = [[Eastren European Simmer Time|EEST]]
|utc_offset_DST               = +3
|postal_code_type             = [[Postal code]]
|postal_code                  = 34000 tae 34850
|area_code                    = (+90) 212 (European side) <br /> (+90) 216 (Asian side)
|website                      = {{URL|http://www.ibb.gov.tr/en-US/Pages/Home.aspx|Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality}}
}}
'''Istanbul''' ({{lang-tr|İstanbul}} {{IPA-tr|isˈtɑnbuɫ||Istanbul pronunciation.ogg}}), historically kent as '''Constantinople''' an '''Byzantium''', is the maist populous ceety in [[Turkey]] an the kintra's economic, cultural, an historic centre. Istanbul is a transcontinental ceety in [[Eurasie]], straddlin the [[Bosphorus]] [[strait]] (which separates [[Europe]] an [[Asie]]) atween the [[Sea o Marmara]] an the [[Black Sea]]. Its commercial an historical centre lies on the [[continental Europe|European side]] an aboot a third o its population leeves on the [[Anatolie|Asie side]].<ref name="wctr281">{{harvnb|WCTR Society; Unʼyu Seisaku Kenkyū Kikō|2004|p=281}}</ref>
The ceety is the admeenistrative centre o the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality ([[wikt:conterminous|coterminous]] wi [[Istanbul Province]]), baith hostin a population o aroond 14.7 million residents.<ref name=citypolution.de/> Istanbul is ane o the [[warld's lairgest ceeties|warld's maist populous ceeties]] an ranks as the warld's 7t-[[Leet o ceeties proper bi population|lairgest ceety proper]] an the [[leet o European ceeties bi population|lairgest European ceety]].