Urbanization is a multidimensional concept including demographic, socio-cultural, economic and political (institutional) processes. While political responses were evident within the process of urbanization, today, spatial and social differentiations are observed with respect to economic restructuring. There have been several definitions drawn forward by economists, sociologists, and geographers about urbanization parallel to the level of urbanization of countries. However, there has been no common definition or any set of criteria formulated yet about for urbanization. The only definition made in our country takes population criterion as the basis for urbanization and the terms ‘province, district, sub-district (bucak) and village’ for administrative division. Sub-districts and villages are accepted to refer to rural settlements, and districts are to refer to urban settlements. The relatively much more developed and urbanized districts are determined as provinces. There have been a rapid increase in the number of provinces in our country recently. 14 districts have been announced as new provinces in years between 1989 and 1999, and other 129 districts, till the present day, have applied to related administrations to become ‘a province’. In fact, such requests to become a province of the districts that has reached up to a certain population create pressure on policy makers and prevent formulation of urbanization and urban structures adequately. In this respect, the present research aims to measure the level of urbanization/development of the districts in Turkey that have been legally announced as provinces recently, to investigate the districts that have the potential to be provinces in the future and finally determine the developments and changes in last fifteen years that have come into picture in those of the 14 districts which have become provinces with political concerns. The theoretical part of the research is consisted of the conceptual framework of urbanization, the researches related with urbanization in international unions and both in developed and developing countries and the policies adopted and studies made in our country after transition to planned development period. With reference to evaluation made throughout the theoretical base and the statistical analysis of the data obtained for the years 1990 and 2000, the level of urbanization for each district in Turkey is put forward. Then, the districts that have potential on the way to become province and the ones that follow a trend towards less urbanization are determined. Furthermore, what type of changes have been realized in the districts that have previously become provinces and which of the districts from the ones that require to become a province really have the potential for it, are evaluated. According to results of the statistical analyses it has been noticed that; -Unlike the ones in developed countries urbanization in our country depends on the industry sector, whilst the service sector or certain socio-cultural figures are still far from contributing to the definition of urbanization or urban development; -The districts with high level of urbanization in our country are located within the hinterlands of metropolitan areas and the districts with high potential to become provinces have considerably close proximity to the provincial centers to which they are connected, hence it will not be realistic to announce those districts as provinces; -The districts that have been announced as provinces in 1989 and 1990 have better trends in development progress when compared with the ones made in later years, so this shows the previous decisions taken for the announcement of new provinces have more rational reasons behind; -Many districts are announced as provinces without reference to any reasonable criteria which gave way to increasing requests to become provinces of other districts with certain amount of population, some of which are considerably underdeveloped, while some are much more developed already than many provincial centers, but could not become provinces because of geographical reasons; -Announcement of a district as a province is not only considerably a costly process for the national economy, but also a potential political tool which may increase the request to become a province in the future unnecessarily; -In addition, it is not convenient to define urbanization in Turkey simply according to the population criterion; rather, it is essential to formulate a standard that is to be composed of certain economic, demographic and administrative parameters.