Cilician Plains
The Cilician Plains, or Çukurova in Turkish, is a region on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It's ringed by the pine-clad Taurus Mountains dropping sharply to a pancake-flat, sticky-hot agricultural land.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Adana and Mersin.
Adana
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Adana is a city on the Cilician Plains of central Turkey, on the Seyhan River about 50 km from the Mediterranean coast. It's industrial and mostly modern but with several places of interest in its historic centre.
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.
Tarsus
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Tarsus is a city on the Çukurova or Cilician Plains of Mediterranean Turkey, with a population of 631,000 in 2022. It's modern and industrial, hosting the regional airport, but with a few antiquities.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Osmaniye and Pozantı.
Osmaniye
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Osmaniye is a city in the Cilician Plains of Turkey, with a population of 252,000 in 2022. The city has few visitor attractions but it serves as a good base to explore outlying sites in the countryside.
Pozantı
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Pozantı is a town at the north edge of the Cilician Plains, astride the main pass through the Taurus Mountains. Together with its associated villages it had a population of 20,000 in 2022.
Karaisalı
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Karaisalı is a village in the mountains north of the Cilician Plains, with a population of 1200 in 2022. The main highway through the Taurus mountains goes via Pozantı then descends to the plains - sights along it are described on that page.
Yumurtalık
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Yumurtalık is a beach resort on the Cilician Plains of Turkey. It's 40 km southeast of Adana, and about the most easterly resort on the Mediterranean coast, before that coast turns a corner and trends south all the way to Egypt.
Cilician Plains
- Type: Region with 6,000,000 residents
- Description: plain in Turkey
- Also known as: “Cilicia”, “Çukurova”, and “Lesser Armenia”
- Category: plain
- Location: Mediterranean Turkey, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Cilician Plains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جقوراوة”
- Arabic: “جُقُورَاوَة”
- Armenian: “Կիլիկյան դաշտ”
- Bulgarian: “Киликийско поле”
- Bulgarian: “Чукурова”
- Catalan: “Çukurova”
- Cebuano: “Çukurova”
- Chinese: “丘库罗瓦”
- Chinese: “丘庫羅瓦”
- Chinese: “奇里乞亞平原”
- Chinese: “庫庫羅瓦”
- Dimli (individual language): “Çukurova”
- Dutch: “Cukurova”
- Dutch: “Çukurova”
- Esperanto: “Çukurova”
- French: “Cukurova”
- French: “Çukurova”
- French: “Tchoukourova”
- German: “Cukurova”
- German: “Çukurova”
- Hebrew: “מישור צ’וקורובה”
- Hebrew: “צ’וקורובה”
- Italian: “Çukurova”
- Italian: “Pianura Cilicia”
- Japanese: “チュクロヴァ地方”
- Persian: “چوکوروا”
- Polish: “Nizina Cylicyjska”
- Romanian: “Çukurova”
- Russian: “Аданская низменность”
- Russian: “Киликийская низменность”
- Russian: “Чукурова”
- Spanish: “Çukurova”
- Turkish: “Çukurova Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Çukurova Ovası”
- Turkish: “Çukurova yöresi”
- Turkish: “Çukurova”
- Uzbek: “Chukurova”
- “Çukurova”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cilician Plains”. Photo: Kpisimon, CC BY-SA 3.0.