Hatay

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Hatay

Total population

1,544,640

Coordinates36.20°, 36.16°

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

Overview

Hatay Province is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is 5,524 km2 (2,133 sq mi), and its population is 1,686,043 (2022). It is situated mostly outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province borders Syria to its south and east, the Turkish province of Adana to the northwest, Osmaniye to the north, and Gaziantep to the northeast. It is partially situated on the Cilician Plain, a large fertile plain along the Cilicia region. Its administrative capital is Antakya, making it one of the three Turkish provinces not named after its administrative capital or any settlement. The second-largest city is İskenderun. Sovereignty over most of the province was disputed with neighbouring Syria, which claimed that the province had a demographic Arab majority, and has separated from its territory in violation of the terms of the French Mandate for Syria that was established on the heels of World War I; however, the issue has remained largely dormant since the thawing of Syrian-Turkish relations in the 2000s.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Luke the Evangelist

one of the four evangelists

Ammianus Marcellinus

4th-century Roman historian and soldier

John V

pope

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Aulus Licinius Archias

1st century BC Greek writer

Maria of Antioch

Byzantine Empress

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Peter the Fuller

Patriarch of Antioch (471–488) and Non-Chalcedonian

Gökhan Zan

Turkish association football player (born 1981)

Libanius

Greek rhetorician (4th century AD)

Saint Pelagia

Antiochene saint

Lucia, Countess of Tripoli

Countess of Tripoli and Princess of Antioch

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John Malalas

6th-century Byzantine Greek chronicler

Walter Sydney Adams

American astronomer

Theodoret

5th century Byzantine theologian and bishop

Apollinaris of Ravenna

Syrian bishop and saint

Agabus

prophet

Ptolemy Philadelphus

King of Syria from 34 to 30 BC

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

Nearby places in Hatay

• Antakya
  0.2 mi away · pop. 365,402
• Defne
  0.9 mi away · pop. 154,820
• Samandağ
  12.9 mi away · pop. 121,109
• Belen
  20.1 mi away · pop. 31,571
• Dörtyol
  43.9 mi away · pop. 121,423
• Velký Pěčín
  1371.8 mi away · pop. 144
• Hostkovice
  1372.8 mi away · pop. 73
• Dolní Němčice
  1372.9 mi away · pop. 359
• Lipolec
  1374 mi away · pop. 203
• Volfířov
  1374.3 mi away · pop. 217
• Markvarec
  1375.6 mi away · pop. 128
• Řečice
  1375.6 mi away · pop. 132

Browse all places in Hatay →

Geography & sun

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

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Hatay

Tourism guide of Hatay

İskenderun Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası · 1988

A forgotten kingdom, being a record of the results obtained from the excavations of two mounds, Atchana and Al Mina, in the Turkish Hatay

Leonard Woolley · 1953

Dr. Edip Kızıldağlı'nın derlediği Hatay masalları

Mehmet Tekin · 1994

Hatay tarihi

Mehmet Tekin · 1993

Hatay

M. Nalan Yastı · 2011

Hatay Museum and environs

Hatay Müzesi. · 1991

Hatay'da sosyo-kültürel çevre

Mehmet Sılay · 1994

Tarihte Hatay ve Hatay Devleti

Mehmet Tekin · 1987

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