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Mersin Province

Mersin

Mersin is a city on the 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.
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  • Type: City with 1,770,000 residents
  • Description: city in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Mersine”, “Merson”, and “Mersyna”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mersin railway station and Müftü Mosque.

Railway station
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mersin station is the main railway terminal in the city of Mersin, . The station is located in the ilçe of . The station is in use since 1886.

Mosque
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a historic mosque in Mersin, . The mosque is to the east of , also known as Müftü River referring to the mosque. The mosque was commissioned by Müftü Emin in 1884.

Museum
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a private museum in Mersin, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Akdeniz and Toroslar.

Town
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 265 km2, and its population is 255,946. It covers the central and eastern part of the city of Mersin and the adjacent countryside.

Town
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,075 km2, and its population is 319,711. It covers the northern part of the city of Mersin and the adjacent countryside.

Town
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 139 km2, and its population is 278,961. It covers the west-central part of the city of Mersin and the adjacent countryside.

Mersin

Latitude
36.7978° or 36° 47′ 52″ north
Longitude
34.6298° or 34° 37′ 47″ east
Population
1,770,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
QIN
United Nations Location Code
TR MER
Open location code
8G8PQJXH+4W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26481523
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
304531
Wiki­data ID
Q134291
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mersin” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mersin”
  • Albanian: “Mersin”
  • Albanian: “Mersini”
  • Arabic: “مرسين”
  • Arabic: “ميرسين”
  • Armenian: “Մերսին”
  • Asturian: “Mersin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mersin”
  • Bashkir: “Адрианополис”
  • Bashkir: “Зепьюр”
  • Bashkir: “Зефирион”
  • Bashkir: “Зефириум”
  • Bashkir: “Мәрсин”
  • Bashkir: “Мерсин”
  • Basque: “Mersin”
  • Belarusian: “Мерсін”
  • Belarusian: “Мэрсін”
  • Bengali: “মারসিন”
  • Bosnian: “Mersin”
  • Breton: “Mersin”
  • Bulgarian: “Мерсин”
  • Catalan: “Mersin”
  • Catalan: “Zephyrion”
  • Catalan: “Zephyrium”
  • Cebuano: “Mercin (kapital sa lalawigan sa Turkiya)”
  • Cebuano: “Mercin”
  • Central Kurdish: “مێرسین”
  • Chechen: “Мерсин”
  • Chinese: “梅尔辛”
  • Chinese: “梅爾辛”
  • Croatian: “Mersin”
  • Czech: “Mersin”
  • Danish: “Mersin”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mersin”
  • Dutch: “Mersin”
  • Eastern Mari: “Мерсин”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مرسين”
  • Esperanto: “Mersin”
  • Esperanto: “Mersino”
  • Finnish: “Mersin”
  • French: “Mersin”
  • French: “Myrte”
  • Gagauz: “Mersin”
  • Georgian: “მერსინი”
  • German: “Mersin”
  • Gilaki: “مرسين”
  • Greek: “Μερσίνα”
  • Greek: “Μερσίνη”
  • Gujarati: “મેર્સિન”
  • Hausa: “Mersin”
  • Hebrew: “מרסין”
  • Hindi: “मेरसिं”
  • Hindi: “मेर्सीन”
  • Hungarian: “Mersin”
  • Indonesian: “Mersin”
  • Irish: “Mersin”
  • Italian: “Mersin”
  • Italian: “Mersina”
  • Italian: “Zephyrion”
  • Italian: “Zephyrium”
  • Japanese: “メルスィン”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆರ್ಸಿನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮೇರ್ಸಿನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Mersïn”
  • Kazakh: “Мерсин”
  • Kazakh: “مەرسىين”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Mersin”
  • Korean: “메르신”
  • Kotava: “Mersin”
  • Kurdish: “Mêrsîn”
  • Latvian: “Mersina”
  • Lithuanian: “Mersinas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mersin”
  • Macedonian: “Мерсин”
  • Malay: “Mersin”
  • Marathi: “मेरसिन”
  • Mazanderani: “مرسین”
  • Minangkabau: “Mersin”
  • Moksha: “Мэрсин”
  • Nauru: “Mersin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mersin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mersin”
  • Norwegian: “Mersin”
  • Ossetian: “Мерсин”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਰਸਿਨ”
  • Persian: “مرسین”
  • Polish: “Mersin”
  • Portuguese: “Adrianópolis”
  • Portuguese: “Hadrianopolis”
  • Portuguese: “Mersim”
  • Portuguese: “Mersin”
  • Portuguese: “Zefírio”
  • Portuguese: “Zephyrion”
  • Portuguese: “Zephyrium”
  • Pushto: “مرسین”
  • Romanian: “Mersin”
  • Russian: “Мерсин”
  • Scots: “Mersin”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mersin”
  • Serbian: “Mersin”
  • Serbian: “Мерсин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mersin”
  • Silesian: “Mersin”
  • Sinhala: “මෙර්සින්”
  • Slovak: “Mersin”
  • Somali: “Mersin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مرسین”
  • Spanish: “Mersin”
  • Spanish: “Mersín”
  • Spanish: “Zephyrion”
  • Spanish: “Zephyrium”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Mersin”
  • Swahili: “Mersin”
  • Swedish: “Mersin”
  • Swedish: “Mersina”
  • Tajik: “Мерсин”
  • Talysh: “Mersin”
  • Tamil: “மெர்ஸின்”
  • Tatar: “Мәрсин”
  • Telugu: “మెర్సిన్”
  • Thai: “แมร์ซิน”
  • Turkish: “İçel”
  • Turkish: “Mersin”
  • Udmurt: “Мерсин”
  • Ukrainian: “Мерсін”
  • Urdu: “مرسین”
  • Uzbek: “Mersin”
  • Venetian: “Mersina”
  • Vietnamese: “Mersin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mersin”
  • Western Armenian: “Մերսին”
  • Western Mari: “Мерсин”
  • Western Panjabi: “آداپازاری”
  • Western Panjabi: “میرسن”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅尔辛”
  • Yue Chinese: “梅爾辛”
  • “Mersin”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Mersin”. Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.