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Mersin Province

Akdeniz

Akdeniz is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 265 km2, and its population is 255,946. It covers the central and eastern part of the city of and the adjacent countryside.
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  • Type: Town with 256,000 residents
  • Description: district of Mersin, south-central Turkey
  • Also known as: “Akdeniz district” and “Akdeniz, Mersin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mersin railway station and Müftü Mosque.

Railway station
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mersin station is the main railway terminal in the city of , . The station is located in the ilçe of Akdeniz. The station is in use since 1886.

Mosque
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is a historic mosque in , . The mosque is to the east of , also known as Müftü River referring to the mosque. The mosque was commissioned by Müftü Emin in 1884.

Lighthouse
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Mersin Feneri is located at the Mediterranean coast in the city of , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mersin and Toroslar.

Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city on the of Mediterranean Turkey, with a population of 1,100,000 in 2025. Another million live in the rest of Province, and it's almost merged into a single huge conurbation with Tarsus and Adana to the east.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,075 km2, and its population is 319,711. It covers the northern part of the city of and the adjacent countryside.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 139 km2, and its population is 278,961. It covers the west-central part of the city of and the adjacent countryside. is situated 4 km southwest of Akdeniz.

Akdeniz

Latitude
36.8021° or 36° 48′ 7″ north
Longitude
34.6332° or 34° 37′ 60″ east
Population
256,000
Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)
Open location code
8G8PRJ2M+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 961779872
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
9542422
Wiki­data ID
Q417000
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Akdeniz” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أقدنيز”
  • Arabic: “أَقْدَنِيزُ”
  • Arabic: “قضاء أقدنيز”
  • Asturian: “Akdeniz (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Akdeniz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Akdəniz”
  • Chechen: “Акдениз”
  • Chinese: “Akdeniz”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Akdeniz, Mersin”
  • Dutch: “Akdeniz, Mersin”
  • German: “Akdeniz”
  • Greek: “Ακτενίζ (Μερσίνη)”
  • Irish: “Akdeniz”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Akdeniz”
  • Kurdish: “Akdeniz, Mêrsîn”
  • Kurdish: “Akdeniz”
  • Malay: “Akdeniz, Mersin”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Akdeniz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akdeniz”
  • Norwegian: “Akdeniz”
  • Persian: “اکدنیز، مرسین”
  • Romanian: “Akdeniz”
  • Russian: “Акдениз”
  • Serbian: “Акдениз”
  • Tatar: “Акдениз (Мерсин)”
  • Tatar: “Акдениз”
  • Turkish: “Akdeniz, Mersin”
  • Turkish: “Akdeniz”
  • Urdu: “آقدینیز، مرسین”
  • Uzbek: “Akdeniz Mersin”
  • Western Mari: “Акдениз”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع اکدینز”
  • “Akdeniz ilçesi”

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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 “Akdeniz”. Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.