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Hatay

Hatay Province is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of . Its area is 5,524 km2, and its population is 1,686,043. It is situated mostly outside , along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Antakya and Iskenderun.

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, also known as Antioch, or more specifically Antioch-on-the-Orontes, is the capital of Hatay Province, which was annexed by Turkey after almost two decades of French rule in 1939.

Photo: Locus1891, CC BY-SA 3.0.
İskenderun, also known as Alexandretta, is a city in Hatay, . It's a major port on the Mediterranean Sea.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of Saint Peter and Habib-i Nejjar Mosque.

Cave
Photo: Volkan, CC BY 2.5.
The near , is composed of a carved into the mountainside on Mount Starius with a depth of 13 m, a width of 9.5 m and a height of 7 m.

Mosque
Photo: GrandEscogriffe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a historical mosque in Antakya, Hatay Province, Turkey named after Habib the Carpenter. The mosque is to the east of . The mosque was severely damaged by earthquakes in February 2023.

Peak
is the ancient mountain above Antioch on the Orontes where Io, the daughter of Inachus, dies of grief in the version of the Greek myth preserved by the Syrian historian Ioannis Malalas. In modern Turkish, it is called Habib-i Neccar Dağı.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Defne and Çekmece.

Town
is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, . Its area is 155 km2, and its population is 165,494. The district was created in 2013 from parts of the former central district of Hatay and the district of .

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , Hatay Province, . Its population is 40,226. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , Hatay Province, . Its population is 10,600. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town.

Hatay

Latitude
36.2025° or 36° 12′ 9″ north
Longitude
36.1603° or 36° 9′ 37″ east
Population
1,540,000
Elevation
1,255 metres (4,117 feet)
IATA airport code
HTY
Open location code
8G8R6536+24
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12110587584
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
312394
Wiki­data ID
Q83274
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hatay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم حطاي”
  • Arabic: “إقليم خطاي”
  • Arabic: “حطاي”
  • Arabic: “خطاي”
  • Arabic: “محافظة حطاي”
  • Arabic: “محافظة خطاي”
  • Arabic: “هاتاي”
  • Arabic: “هتاي”
  • Arabic: “ولاية حطاي”
  • Armenian: “Հաթայ”
  • Armenian: “Հաթայի մարզ”
  • Asturian: “Hatay (provincia)”
  • Asturian: “Hatay”
  • Asturian: “provincia de Hatay”
  • Asturian: “Provincia de Hatay”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hatay ili”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hatay”
  • Basque: “Hatay probintzia”
  • Basque: “Hatay”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Хатай”
  • Belarusian: “Хатай”
  • Bengali: “হাতাই প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “হাতাই”
  • Bosnian: “Hatay”
  • Breton: “Hatay”
  • Bulgarian: “Хатай”
  • Catalan: “Hatay”
  • Catalan: “Província de Hatay”
  • Catalan: “TR631”
  • Cebuano: “Hatay”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای خەتای”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای هاتای”
  • Central Kurdish: “خەتای”
  • Central Kurdish: “هاتای”
  • Chechen: “ХӀатай (ил)”
  • Chechen: “ХӀатай”
  • Chinese: “Hatay”
  • Chinese: “哈塔伊省”
  • Chuvash: “Хатай”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hatay”
  • Czech: “Hatay”
  • Czech: “Hatayská provincie”
  • Danish: “Hatay”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Xetay”
  • Dutch: “Hatay”
  • Esperanto: “de Hatay”
  • Esperanto: “Hatay”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Hatay”
  • Estonian: “Hatay provints”
  • Estonian: “Hatay”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Hatay Praant”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Hatay”
  • Finnish: “Hatay”
  • Finnish: “Hatayn maakunta”
  • French: “Hatay”
  • Gagauz: “Hatay”
  • Georgian: “ჰათაი”
  • Georgian: “ჰათაის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Hatay”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Αντιόχειας”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία του Χάταϊ”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Χατάι”
  • Greek: “Χατάι”
  • Gujarati: “હટાય”
  • Hebrew: “האטיי”
  • Hebrew: “נפת האטיי”
  • Hindi: “हताय”
  • Hindi: “हेटे”
  • Hungarian: “Hatay”
  • Icelandic: “Hatay”
  • Ido: “Provinco Hatay”
  • Indonesian: “Hatay”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Hatay”
  • Irish: “Hatay”
  • Italian: “Hatay”
  • Italian: “provincia di Hatay”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Hatay”
  • Japanese: “ハタイ県”
  • Kannada: “ಹಟಾಯ್”
  • Kannada: “ಹತಾಯ್”
  • Korean: “하타이주”
  • Kurdish: “Hatay”
  • Kurdish: “Xetay”
  • Latin: “Hatay”
  • Latvian: “Hataj”
  • Latvian: “Hatajas ils”
  • Latvian: “Hatajas province”
  • Latvian: “Hatay”
  • Lithuanian: “Chatajus”
  • Lithuanian: “Hatay”
  • Macedonian: “Хатај”
  • Malay: “Hatay”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Hatay”
  • Marathi: “हाताय प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “हाताय”
  • Mazanderani: “ختای اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hatay”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰათაიშ პროვინცია”
  • Nauru: “Hatay”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hatay (Prowins)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hatay”
  • Northern Luri: “آستوٙن خوتای”
  • Northern Luri: “خوتای”
  • Northern Sami: “Hatay eanangoddi”
  • Northern Sami: “Hatay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hatay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hatay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Hatay”
  • Norwegian: “Hatay”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hatay”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Hatay”
  • Ossetian: “Хатай”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਤਾਏ”
  • Persian: “استان ختای”
  • Persian: “ختای”
  • Polish: “Hatay”
  • Polish: “Kraj Hatay”
  • Portuguese: “Hatai”
  • Portuguese: “Hatay”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Hatai”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Hatay”
  • Romanian: “Hatay”
  • Romanian: “provincia Hatay”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Hatay”
  • Russian: “Хатай”
  • Scots: “Hatay Province”
  • Scots: “Hatay”
  • Serbian: “Хатај”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hatay”
  • Sinhala: “හටේ”
  • Slovenian: “Hatay”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هاتای اوستانی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هاتای”
  • Spanish: “Hatay”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Hatay”
  • Swahili: “Hatay”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Hatay”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Hatay”
  • Swedish: “Hatay”
  • Tagalog: “Hatay”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Hatay”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Хатой”
  • Tajik: “Хатой”
  • Tamil: “கத்தே மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “கத்தே”
  • Tatar: “Хатай иле”
  • Telugu: “హటాయ్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดฮาทัย”
  • Turkish: “Hatay ili”
  • Turkish: “Hatay”
  • Turkmen: “Hataý”
  • Uighur: “ھاتاي ۋىلايىتى”
  • Uighur: “ھاتاي”
  • Ukrainian: “Хатай”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ حطائے”
  • Urdu: “ھتای”
  • Urdu: “ہاتے صوبہ”
  • Uzbek: “Hatay”
  • Vietnamese: “Hatay”
  • Vietnamese: “tỉnh Hatay”
  • Volapük: “Hatay”
  • Volapük: “Hatayiän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hatay”
  • Welsh: “Hatay”
  • Western Armenian: “Հաթայ”
  • Western Mari: “Хатай”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ ہاتے”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈塔伊省”
  • Yue Chinese: “哈塔伊省”
  • “Hatay”
  • “Hatay ili”
  • “TR-31”
  • “TU31”

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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 “Hatay”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.