Marmara Islands
Marmara Islands are an archipelago in the Sea of Marmara in the Southern Marmara Region of Turkey. Several have tourist facilities and marble quarries.Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Marmara and Avşa.
Marmara
Marmara Island is the largest of the Marmara Islands in the Southern Marmara Region of Turkey.Marmara Islands
- Type: Town with 2,140 residents
- Description: district of Balıkesir, northwestern Turkey
- Also known as: “Districte de Marmara”, “Marmara”, “Marmara (distritu)”, “Marmara district”, “Marmara District”, “Prokonnesos”, and “Мармара (район)”
- Categories: district of Turkey and locality
- Location: Balıkesir Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
40.5862° or 40° 35′ 10″ north
Longitude
27.5568° or 27° 33′ 24″ east
Population
2,140
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
UN/LOCODE
TR MRA
Open location code
8GG9HHP4+FP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Marmara Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قضاء مرمرة”
- Asturian: “Marmara”
- Catalan: “Marmara”
- Cebuano: “Marmara İlçesi”
- Chechen: “Мармара (Туркойчоь)”
- Chechen: “Мармара”
- Czech: “Marmara”
- Dimli (individual language): “Marmara, Balıkesir”
- Dimli (individual language): “Marmara”
- Dutch: “Marmara”
- French: “Marmara”
- German: “Marmara”
- Greek: “Μαρμαράς”
- Hungarian: “Marmara”
- Irish: “Marmara”
- Italian: “Distretto di Marmara”
- Lithuanian: “Marmara”
- Malay: “Marmara, Balıkesir”
- Malay: “Marmara”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Marmara”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marmara”
- Norwegian: “Marmara”
- Persian: “مارمارا”
- Russian: “Мармара”
- Serbian: “Мармара”
- Swahili: “Marmara, Balıkesir”
- Swahili: “Marmara”
- Tatar: “Мармара”
- Turkish: “Marmara, Balıkesir”
- Turkish: “Marmara”
- Ukrainian: “Мармара”
- Urdu: “مرمرہ ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Marmara”
- Western Mari: “Мармара”
- “Marmara ilçesi”
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