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Also known as Mersin, İçel

province in south-central Turkey

AI overview

Mersin Province is a region located in south-central Turkey along the Mediterranean coast. It matters as an important economic and cultural area in Turkey, serving as a major port and commercial hub for the country's southern region.

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Wikidata facts

Country
Turkey
Located in
Turkey
Continent
Asia
Capital
Mersin
Official language
Turkish
Population
1733188
Area
16010
Elevation
5
Body of water
Mediterranean Sea
Shares border with
Antalya Province
Official website
www.mersin.gov.tr
Image
Mersin districts.png
Households
611399
Life expectancy
78.08
Dialing code
324
Licence plate code
33
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Commons category
Mersin Province
topic's main category
Category:Mersin Province
postal code
33000–33999
category for people born here
Category:Births in Mersin Province
category of associated people
Category:People from Mersin Province
native label
Mersin ili
language used
Turkish
male population
863221
female population
869967
different from
Mersin
annual number of weddings
13241
water as percent of area
0.57
suicide rate
6.59
total fertility rate
1.46
mean age
35.42
minimum temperature record
-6.6
maximum temperature record
41.5
present in work
Civilization V
name in kana
メルスィン
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Encyclopedic overview

Mersin Province (Turkish: Mersin ili), formerly İçel Province (İçel ili), is a province and metropolitan municipality in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. Its area is 16,010 km, and its population is 1,916,432 (2022). The provincial capital and the biggest city in the province is Mersin, which is composed of four municipalities and district governorates: Akdeniz, Mezitli, Toroslar and Yenişehir. Next largest is Tarsus, the birthplace of Paul the Apostle. The province is considered to be a part of the geographical, economical and cultural region of Çukurova, which covers the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye and Hatay.

Etymology

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mersin Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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