Adana is a province located in the Eastern Mediterranean Section of the Mediterranean Region in the south of Turkey, with a surface area of ​​14,030 km² and a population of 2,300,000 (SIS, 2007 census).

Adana Pictures

Adana province administratively consists of 13 districts, 10 sub-districts and 547 villages. Adana province and its provincial center are located in the Çukurova Delta, one of the most important agricultural production regions of Turkey, and its development and economy are mainly focused on agricultural production and agriculture-based industry.

The city of Adana was founded approximately 40 km inland (and to the north) from the sea, on one of the alluvial filled terraces rising with a slight slope from the Çukurova Delta, formed by the Seyhan and Ceyhan rivers, towards the mountains in the north. Its altitude above sea level is 23 m in the city center. The Seyhan River flows from the north to the south of the city in a wide bed buried a few meters in this plain.

Floods arising from the low level difference between the river and the plain on which the city was built have almost disappeared after the construction of the Seyhan Dam. The core of the city of Adana is the circular settlement around the Tepebağ hill, which leans on the Seyhan River in the east.

The Stone Bridge, dating back to the Roman period, connects this place to the left bank of Seyhan. Adana, which has maintained its character as a middle-class provincial city for a long time, with a population of 20,000-30,000; It started to develop in the second half of the 19th century. This development accelerated especially after 1950, giving Adana its present-day big city feature.

In 1886, the city was connected to Mersin Port by railway. The Hejaz Railway crossed the Taurus Mountains and reached Adana during the First World War. As a result of these developments, the city spread rapidly, especially after 1950, around the old core, mostly towards the station in the North-West and towards the west, and some arrangements were made in the core section. New planned neighborhoods were established, wide streets and parks were opened.

During these developments, growth spilled over to the left bank of Seyhan. Adana, one of the settlements where the urbanization process is fastest in Turkey, is the most important center of the Mediterranean Region in terms of trade, industry and capital markets. Adana, which is the crossroads of a developed road network, has an airport, educational institutions at various levels, Çukurova University and the State Fine Arts Gallery.

Tourism in Adana

In Adana, each civilization created a cultural mosaic by transferring its cultural diversity to the next. Hittites, Romans, Arabs, Seljuks, Ramazanids, Ottomans, Turkmen and Yoruk tribes contributed to the diversification of the local culture. Especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, the intensification of settlement in the Adana plain and the great breakthroughs in agriculture and industrialization created great changes in the culture of the region.