Toroslar
Toroslar is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,075 km2, and its population is 319,711. It covers the northern part of the city of Mersin and the adjacent countryside.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Yumuktepe and Mersin railway station.
Yumuktepe
Archaeological site
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Yumuktepe, also known as Yümüktepe, is a tell within the city borders of Mersin, Turkey. In 1936, the mound was on the outskirts of Mersin, but after a rapid increase of population, the mound was surrounded by the Toroslar municipality of Mersin.
Mersin railway station
Railway station
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Mersin station is the main railway terminal in the city of Mersin, Turkey. The station is located in the ilçe of Akdeniz. The station is in use since 1886.
Mersin Urban History Museum
Museum
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Mersin Urban History Museum is a private museum in Mersin, Turkey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mersin and Akdeniz.
Mersin
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Mersin is a city on the Cilician Plains of Mediterranean Turkey, with a population of 1,100,000 in 2025. Another million live in the rest of Mersin Province, and it's almost merged into a single huge conurbation with Tarsus and Adana to the east.
Akdeniz
Town
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Akdeniz is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its area is 265 km2, and its population is 255,946. It covers the central and eastern part of the city of Mersin and the adjacent countryside.
Yenişehir
Town
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Yenişehir is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its area is 139 km2, and its population is 278,961. It covers the west-central part of the city of Mersin and the adjacent countryside. Yenişehir is situated 4½ km south of Toroslar.
Toroslar
- Type: Town with 315,000 residents
- Description: district and town in Mersin Province, Turkey
- Categories: municipality and locality
- Location: Mersin Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.8208° or 36° 49′ 15″ northLongitude
34.6105° or 34° 36′ 38″ eastPopulation
315,000Elevation
147 metres (482 feet)Open location code
8G8PRJC6+85OpenStreetMap ID
node 961793235OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
9542263Wikidata ID
Q2306513
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Toroslar” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Toroslar (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Toroslar”
- Azerbaijani: “Toroslar”
- Bavarian: “Toroslar”
- Cebuano: “Toroslar”
- Chechen: “Торослар”
- Chinese: “Toroslar”
- Dimli (individual language): “Toroslar”
- Dutch: “Toroslar”
- Gagauz: “Toroslar”
- German: “Toroslar”
- Irish: “Toroslar”
- Italian: “Distretto di Toroslar”
- Kurdish: “Toroslar, Mêrsîn”
- Kurdish: “Toroslar”
- Malay: “Toroslar”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Toroslar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Toroslar”
- Norwegian: “Toroslar”
- Persian: “توروسلار”
- Russian: “Торослар”
- Serbian: “Торослар”
- Tatar: “Торослар”
- Turkish: “Toroslar, Mersin”
- Turkish: “Toroslar”
- Urdu: “توروسلار”
- Western Mari: “Торослар”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع توروسلار”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Toroslar”. Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.