Akkent
Akkent is a suburb in Yenişehir, Mersin Province and has about 18,400 residents. Akkent is situated nearby to the suburb Eğriçam, as well as near Batıkent.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mezitli and Bozön.
Mezitli
Town
Photo: Hamdan Qarmat, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mezitli is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its area is 371 km2, and its population is 225,824. It covers the westernmost part of the city of Mersin and the adjacent countryside. The Mayor of Mezitli is Ahmet Serkan Tuncer. Mezitli is situated 3½ km southwest of Akkent.
Bozön
Village
Bozön is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Mezitli, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,141. It is about 10 kilometres west from Mersin city center. Bozön is situated 6 km northwest of Akkent.
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.
Akkent
- Type: Suburb with 18,400 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Yenişehir, Mersin, south-central Turkey
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Yenişehir, Mersin Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.77229° or 36° 46′ 20″ northLongitude
34.55651° or 34° 33′ 23″ eastPopulation
18,400Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)Open location code
8G8PQHC4+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 9898591611OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
10631536Wikidata ID
Q109962747
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In Other Languages
From Chechen to Turkish—“Akkent” goes by many names.
- Chechen: “Аккент”
- German: “Akkent”
- Tatar: “Аккент”
- Turkish: “Akkent mahallesi”
- Turkish: “Akkent, Yenişehir”
- Turkish: “Akkent”
- “Akkent”
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