Antalya Province
Antalya Province (Turkis: Antalya ili) is province locatit on the Mediterranean coast o soothwast Turkey, atween the Taurus Muntains an the Mediterranean Sea.
Antalya Province is the centre o Turkey's tourism industry, attractin 30% o foreign tourists visitin Turkey. The province o Antalya corresponds tae the lands o auncient Pamphylie tae the east an Lycia tae the wast. It featurs a shoreline o 657 km (408 mi) wi beaches, ports, an auncient ceeties scattered throughoot, includin the Warld Heritage Steid Xanthos. The provincial caipital is Antalya ceety wi a population o 1,001,318.
Antalya is the fastest-growin province in Turkey; wi a 4.17% yearly population growthe rate atween years 1990-2000, compared wi the naitional rate f 1.83%. This growthe is due tae a fast rate o urbanization, pairticularly driven bi tourism an ither service sectors on the coast.
Etymology
[eedit | eedit soorce]The ceety an sicweys the province are namit efter Attalos II, king o Pergamon, who foondit the ceety in the 2nt century BC.
Destricts an ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]- The coastal destricts are; Antalya, Gazipaşa, Alanya, Manavgat, Serik, Kemer, Kumluca, Finike, Kale an Kaş.
- The inland destricts are heich in the Taurus Muntains, at elevations approx 900–1000 m abuin sea level. Thir are; Gündoğmuş, Akseki, İbradı, Korkuteli an Elmalı.
References
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- Adana
- Adıyaman
- Afyonkarahisar
- Ağrı
- Aksaray
- Amasya
- Ankara
- Antalya
- Ardahan
- Artvin
- Aydın
- Balıkesir
- Bartın
- Batman
- Bayburt
- Bilecik
- Bingöl
- Bitlis
- Bolu
- Burdur
- Bursa
- Çanakkale
- Çankırı
- Çorum
- Denizli
- Diyarbakır
- Düzce
- Edirne
- Elazığ
- Erzincan
- Erzurum
- Eskişehir
- Gaziantep
- Giresun
- Gümüşhane
- Hakkâri
- Hatay
- Iğdır
- Isparta
- Istanbul
- İzmir
- Kahramanmaraş
- Karabük
- Karaman
- Kars
- Kastamonu
- Kayseri
- Kilis
- Kırıkkale
- Kırklareli
- Kırşehir
- Kocaeli
- Konya
- Kütahya
- Malatya
- Manisa
- Mardin
- Mersin
- Muğla
- Muş
- Nevşehir
- Niğde
- Ordu
- Osmaniye
- Rize
- Sakarya
- Samsun
- Şanlıurfa
- Siirt
- Sinop
- Şırnak
- Sivas
- Tekirdağ
- Tokat
- Trabzon
- Tunceli
- Uşak
- Van
- Yalova
- Yozgat
- Zonguldak
Coordinates: 37°10′54″N 30°56′00″E / 37.18167°N 30.93333°E