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Adana [a] is a large city in southern Turkey.The city is situated on the Seyhan River, 35 km (22 mi) inland from the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea.It is the administrative seat of the Adana province, and has a population of 1.8 million, [1] making it the largest city in the Mediterrenean Region of Turkey.
These were the three most populous cities in Turkey, namely; Istanbul, Ankara, and İzmir. In each metropolitan municipality a number of second level municipalities (ilçe municipality) were established. In 1986, four new metropolitan municipalities were established: Adana, [4] Bursa, [5] Gaziantep [6] and Konya. [7]
Seyhan is a district-municipality in the Adana Province of Turkey. [2] Its area is 444 km 2, [3] and its population is 795,012 (2022). [1] It forms the core of the Adana urban area. Seyhan is home to 35 percent of the residents of Adana Province and almost half of the residents of the city of Adana.
The Seyhan River (formerly written Seihan, Sihun; ancient name: Ancient Greek: Σάρος, Sáros), alternatively known as Sarus (or in Turkish as Sarus Su), [2] is the longest river of Cilicia and the longest of Turkey that flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
The largest city in the region is Antalya. Other big cities are Adana , Mersin , Isparta , Antakya and Kahramanmaraş . It is bordered by the Aegean Region to the west, the Central Anatolia Region to the north, the Eastern Anatolia Region to the northeast, the Southeastern Anatolia Region to the east, Syria to the southeast, and the ...
Adana Province (Turkish: Adana ili) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey located in central Cilicia. The administrative seat of the province is the city of Adana, home to 78.25% of the residents of the province. Its area is 13,844 km 2, [2] and its population is 2,274,106 (2022). [1]
In the Ottoman Empire and in the early Turkish Republic, [when?] the corresponding unit was the kaza. Most provinces bear the same name as their respective provincial capital districts. However, many urban provinces, designated as greater municipalities, have a center consisting of multiple districts, such as the provincial capital of Ankara ...
According to Law act no 6360, all Turkish provinces with a population more than 750 000, were renamed as metropolitan municipality. All districts in those provinces became second level municipalities and all villages in those districts were renamed as a neighborhoods . Thus the villages listed above are officially neighborhoods of Adana.