Akdeniz

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Akdeniz

Total population

255,682

Elevation9 m

Coordinates36.80°, 34.63°

Demographic figures from TurkStat. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Akdeniz is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its area is 265 km2, and its population is 255,946 (2022). It covers the central and eastern part of the city of Mersin and the adjacent countryside.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Tayfun Bademsoy

Turkish actor (born 1958)

Yaşar Bilgin

Turkish-German physician and statesperson (born 1950)

Nevin Yanıt

Turkish high hurdler (born 1986)

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İlhan Ummak

Turkish association football player (born 1979)

Anton Christoforidis

Greek boxer (1917–1985)

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Ahmet Kireççi

Turkish wrestler (1914–1979)

Evlin Bağçeban

Turkish opera singer (1928–2010)

Kerim Zengin

Turkish association football player (born 1985)

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Asaf Pekdeğer

Turkish college professor (1950–2011)

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Atıf Yılmaz

Turkish film director (1925–2006)

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Aysun Bademsoy

Turkish-German film director and screenwriter (born 1960)

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Aytaç Öden

Turkish association football player (born 1991)

Bülent Eken

Turkish association football player (1923–2016)

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Semra Ertan

Turkish poet and writer (1956–1982)

Efe Halil Özarslan

Turkish association football player (born 1990)

Emre Gürbüz

Turkish association football player (born 1991)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Mersin

• Mersin
  0.3 mi away · pop. 1,773,852
• Toroslar
  1.8 mi away · pop. 315,408
• Yenişehir
  2.6 mi away · pop. 274,944
• Mezitli
  6.7 mi away · pop. 218,816
• Tarsus
  16.5 mi away · pop. 347,314
• Erdemli
  22.5 mi away · pop. 147,512
• Çamlıyayla
  25.3 mi away · pop. 8,208
• Silifke
  49 mi away · pop. 127,849
• Mut
  67.1 mi away · pop. 62,803
• Gülnar
  75.6 mi away · pop. 27,557
• Aydıncık
  85.8 mi away · pop. 11,314
• Bozyazı
  104 mi away · pop. 26,910

Browse all places in Mersin →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

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Books about Akdeniz

Search results from Open Library.