Defne district
Sign in to saveDefne is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 155 km2, and its population is 165,494 (2022). The district Defne was created in 2013 from parts of the former central district of Hatay and the district of Samandağ. It covers the southwestern part of the agglomeration of Antakya and the adjacent countryside.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Defne
- Turkey place.image_map
- Hatay location Defne.png
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Defne District in Hatay Province
- Turkey place.province
- Hatay
- Turkey place.leader_party
- CHP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- İbrahim Güzel
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 155
- Turkey place.population_total
- 165494
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 31160
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0326
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Turkey
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Hatay Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 151017
- Area
- 155
- Elevation
- 248
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Samandağ
- Official website
- www.defne.bel.tr
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- Commons category
- Defne, Hatay
- native label
- دفنه
- inception
- 2012-12-06
- urban population
- 162199
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Composition
- References
Defne is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 155 km2, and its population is 165,494 (2022). The district Defne was created in 2013 from parts of the former central district of Hatay and the district of Samandağ. It covers the southwestern part of the agglomeration of Antakya and the adjacent countryside.
Defne was heavily damaged by powerful earthquakes in February 2023 and subsequent aftershocks.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Defne district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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