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: Antakya and Iskenderun.

is the capital of Hatay Province, a part of Turkey since 1939.

İskenderun is a city in Hatay, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey close to the border with Syria.

Places of Interest

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

Cave
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Mosque
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Defne and Çekmece.

Town
is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, .

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , Hatay Province, .

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , Hatay Province, .

Hatay

  • Type: City with 1,540,000 residents
  • Description: province in south-central Turkey
  • Also known as: “de Hatay”, “Hataj”, “Hatajas province”, “Hatay (provincia)”, “Hatay İli”, “Hatay Province”, “Hatay Vilâyeti”, “Jimbo la Hatay”, “Kraj Hatay”, “Província de Hatai”, “tỉnh Hatay”, “TR-31”, “TR631”, “TU31”, “Επαρχία Αντιόχειας”, “Хатой”, “ჰათაი”, “إقليم حطاي”, “پارێزگای هاتای”, “ختای”, “خەتای”, “خوتای”, “محافظة حطاي”, “ھاتاي”, “हाताय”, “হাতাই”, and “கத்தே”
  • Categories: province of Turkey and locality
  • Location: , , ,
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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
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

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

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