Mediterranean Turkey
Mediterranean Turkey is a region in Turkey, encompassing the entire southern coast and the inland areas backing it. The coast is also called the Turkish Riviera and the Turquoise Coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Hatay and Antalya.
Hatay
Hatay Province is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is 5,524 km2, and its population is 1,686,043. It is situated mostly outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea.
Antalya
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Antalya is a city in Pamphylia on the Turkish Mediterranean coast, and the chief resort of the "Turkish Riviera". It's a metropolis with a population of 2.7 million in 2022, the fifth largest city in the country.
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.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Lycia and Cilician Plains.
Lycia
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Lycia is the westernmost section of Mediterranean Turkey. Sometimes known as the Turquoise Coast, it has a rugged scenic coastline popular for water activities.
Cilician Plains
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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.
Pamphylia
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Pamphylia is a region along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It has long sandy beaches, water sports, Roman ruins, museums and lots of hotels, so it's a popular region all-round for holidays.
Lakes District
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The Turkish Lake District or Turkish Lakeland is an area with a series of shallow tectonic lakes within the folds of the Taurus Mountains in Southwestern Anatolia, Turkey The major lakes are Acıgöl, Akşehir, Beyşehir, Burdur, Eğirdir, and the smaller ones are Akgöl, Lake Çavuşçu, Eber, Işıklı, Karamık, Karataş, Kovada, Salda, Suğla and Yarışlı.
Cilician Mountains
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The Cilician Mountains rise abruptly from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. The region is dotted with ancient ruins and medieval castles, but few overseas travellers come this way.
Cilicia
Cilicia is an ancient region in the south of Turkey, along its eastern Mediterranean coast. Throughout the history the region has been much contested for as it forms the shortest land connection between Europe and the Levant, and therefore is very rich in historical sites.Mediterranean Turkey
- Type: Region with 9,890,000 residents
- Description: region of Turkey
- Also known as: “Mediterranean Region” and “Mediterranean region, Turkey”
- Neighbors: Aegean Turkey, Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia, Southeastern Anatolia, and Syria
- Categories: region of Turkey and human-geographic territorial entity
- Location: Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Uzbek—“Mediterranean Turkey” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Rajoni Mesdhetar”
- Arabic: “منطقة البحر الأبيض المتوسط”
- Armenian: “Միջերկրածովյան երկրամաս”
- Armenian: “Միջերկրածովյան տարածաշրջան”
- Azerbaijani: “Aralıq dənizi regionu”
- Basque: “Mediterraneo Itsasoko eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Міжземнаморскі рэгіён”
- Bosnian: “Sredozemna regija (Turska)”
- Bosnian: “Sredozemna regija”
- Bulgarian: “Средиземноморски регион (Турция)”
- Bulgarian: “Средиземноморски регион”
- Catalan: “Regió de la Mediterrània”
- Central Kurdish: “ھەرێمی مەدیتەرانە”
- Chechen: “Лаьттайуккъера хӀордан регион (Туркойчоь)”
- Chechen: “Лаьттайуккъера хӀордан регион”
- Chinese: “地中海地區”
- Czech: “Středomořský region”
- Dimli (individual language): “Mıntıqay Deryay Miyanêni”
- Dutch: “Akdeniz Bolgesi”
- Dutch: “Akdeniz Bölgesi”
- Dutch: “Middellandse Zee-regio”
- Dutch: “Middellandse Zeeregio”
- Esperanto: “Mediteranea regiono de Turkio”
- Esperanto: “Mediteranea regiono”
- Finnish: “Välimeren alue”
- French: “Région Méditerranéenne de Turquie”
- French: “Région méditerranéenne”
- Galician: “Rexión do Mediterráneo”
- Georgian: “ხმელთაშუა ზღვის რეგიონი”
- German: “Akdeniz Bölgesi”
- German: “Mittelmeer-Region”
- German: “Mittelmeerregion”
- Greek: “Περιοχή Μεσογείου”
- Hebrew: “הים התיכון”
- Hebrew: “מחוז הים התיכון”
- Hungarian: “Földközi-tengeri régió”
- Indonesian: “Akdeniz Bölgesi”
- Indonesian: “Kawasan Mediterania, Turki”
- Indonesian: “Kawasan Mediterania”
- Indonesian: “Mediterranean Region”
- Italian: “Regione del Mar Mediterraneo”
- Italian: “Turchia mediterranea”
- Japanese: “地中海地方”
- Korean: “지중해 지역”
- Kurdish: “Herêma deryaya navîn”
- Macedonian: “Средоземен регион”
- Marathi: “भूमध्य प्रदेश”
- Northern Frisian: “Madlunsiaregiuun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Middelhavs-regionen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Middelhavsregionen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akdeniz Bölgesi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Middelhavsregionen i Tyrkia”
- Norwegian: “Middelhavsregionen”
- Persian: “منطقه مدیترانه”
- Persian: “ناحیه مدیترانه”
- Portuguese: “Akdeniz”
- Portuguese: “Região do Mediterrâneo”
- Pushto: “مدیترانه سیمه”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Mediteraneană”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Mediteraneeană, Turcia”
- Russian: “Средиземноморский регион”
- Scots: “Mediterranean Region, Turkey”
- Scots: “Mediterranean Region”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mediteran”
- Slovak: “Stredomorský región”
- Slovenian: “Sredozemlje, Turčija”
- Slovenian: “Sredozemlje”
- South Azerbaijani: “آغدنیز بؤلگهسی”
- Spanish: “Region del Mediterraneo”
- Spanish: “Region del Mediterráneo”
- Spanish: “Región del Mediterraneo”
- Spanish: “Región del Mediterráneo”
- Swahili: “Kanda ya Mediteranea”
- Swahili: “Kanda ya Mediterranean”
- Swahili: “Ukanda wa Mediteranea”
- Tagalog: “Mediterranean Region”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyon ng Mediteraneo, Turkiya”
- Tajik: “Минтақаи Баҳри Миёназамин”
- Tamil: “மத்தியத்தரைக் கடல் பிராந்தியம், துருக்கி”
- Turkish: “Akdeniz Bölgesi”
- Uighur: “يەر ئوتتۇرا دېڭىزى رايونى”
- Ukrainian: “Середземноморський регіон”
- Urdu: “بحیرہ روم علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “O’rta Yer dengizi mintaqasi”
- Uzbek: “Oʻrta Yer dengizi mintaqasi”
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