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Some of the existing districts of Çankırı cause waste of public resources as the reasons for their establishment have lost their validity. In order to use public resources in accordance with the economy of scale, criteria have been developed to measure the performance of districts. With the criteria developed in this context, the evaluation of the existing districts was made by applying the PCA method. Districts with low and high score values were determined as a result of PCA. By applying the Thiessen Polygon method with the ArcGis program, equidistant impact areas of the districts with high scores were determined. In this way, it has been determined how to combine low-scoring districts with high-scoring districts. Suggestions have been made for the unification of the villages, whose population has decreased considerably and which are very close to each other. These suggestions were made considering the minimum population limit of 150 people and the maximum distance of 10 km between settlements. As of 2021, Çankırı has 12 district administrative areas, three towns, and 371 village administrative areas. According to the research findings, the province should consist of 178 administrative units, including five districts, 10 towns, and 163 villages. This division was considered to be appropriate for the public interest.

It is observed that there are some problems with the methods of obtaining statistics used in determining the rural and urban population in Turkey. In determining the urban and rural population in Turkey, the data of the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) are used, and correct values cannot be obtained due to the laws numbered 6360, 5216 and 5393. The main goal of the study is to reveal that there are similar problems not only in metropolitan municipal provinces but also in other provinces in determining the rural and urban population and to develop a method for the solution of this problem. The problem of determining the rural and urban population should be solved by determining whether the neighborhoods are in the urban texture with satellite images and field studies. This method was applied to Adana and Osmaniye provinces. According to the findings obtained, it has been determined that 12% of the total population of Adana is rural and 88% is urban population. Unlike TURKSTAT, it was determined that the total rural population of Osmaniye province is 116,409, and the urban population is 432,147.

Each community perceives and named the environment it lives in with its cultural background. As a result, every society transforms physical geography into human geography by changing the environment they live in. They do this transformation by naming them as they do with concrete activities. The geography discipline mostly focused on the names of villages and urban settlements. In the village names researches, generally, the name of the administrative center of the village was examined, but other rural settlements were not examined. This research is one of the pioneer studies examining all rural settlements in village administrative areas. This research aims to explain what factors are effective in naming the sub-villages in the village administrative area of Kırşehir province. Literature was evaluated that could help determine the origin of sub-village names in village administrative areas. Besides, trips and observations were made and information was also obtained from mukhtar and residents. It has been revealed that 71% of the 85 sub-village names in Kırşehir province are related to human geography and 18% are related to physical geography features.

Diversity in the natural and humankind-related properties of Beypazarı District whose major part takes place in the Upper Sakarya Region of the Central Anatolia Region and a smaller part in the Western Black Sea area of the Black Sea Region has significant effects on how the natural land is being used. The natural features of the district, contains elements of both the Black Sea region and Central Anatolia region. The natural conditions of Beypazarı district, in particular geomorphologic structure, have a major impact on land use. Large part of the study area is dominated by erosional surfaces. In the northern areas, where agricultural land is rather fewer, the importance of agriculture leaves its place to forestry and livestock farming in the livelihoods. However, in central and southern parts of county reduction of the elevation in the erosional surfaces allows agricultural activities. In these areas generally dry farming carried out. In the valley floors in the district, especially around valley of Kirmir, vegetable is cultivated significantly.