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District and municipality in Balıkesir, Turkey

# Edremit

Edremit is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, Turkey.

![Edremit](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Edremit_Unidentified_location_in_2008_1679.jpg/1920px-Edremit_Unidentified_location_in_2008_1679.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

Edremit · Dosseman

The place

Edremit is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, Turkey. Its area is 682 km2 (263 sq mi), and its population is 167,901 (2022). It is situated a few kilometres inland from the Gulf of Edremit. The mayor of Edremit municipality is Selman Hasan Arslan.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edremit%2C_Bal%C4%B1kesir), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to Edremit

**Airports:** Balıkesir Koca Seyit (EDO), 4 km · Adnan Menderes (ADB), 145 km · İstanbul (IST), 237 km\
**Stations:** Balıkesir Koca Seyit Airport, 3.6 km\

- Gaziemir → Edremit 142 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · ₺380–510 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/gaziemir-to-edremit) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Gaziemir&to=Edremit)
- Istanbul → Edremit 227 km · quickest by road, 4h · ₺660–870 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/istanbul-to-edremit) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Istanbul&to=Edremit)
- Pendik, Istanbul → Edremit 238 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · ₺590–790 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/pendik-istanbul-to-edremit) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Pendik%2C+Istanbul&to=Edremit)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Edremit)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Edremit

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Edremit. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get in Ferries sail to Ayvalik from the Greek island of Lesvos, daily in summer.
- Go next Lesvos is reached by ferry from Ayvalık and has ferries to other Greek islands.

From [Wikivoyage: Northern Aegean](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Northern_Aegean), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-11.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Gökçeada](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gokceada) TR 11 ways of moving, 39 sources 119 km
2. [Thasos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/thasos) GR 10 ways of moving, 17 sources 237 km
3. [Mount Athos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mount-athos) GR 9 ways of moving, 21 sources 238 km
4. [Mykonos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mykonos) GR 12 ways of moving, 23 sources 280 km
5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 312 km

If you know how people move in Edremit – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cedremit&title=Edremit&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fedremit), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Edremit

- [Thebe](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/thebe) ancient city of Mysia, in modern-day Turkey 2 km

[The place page for Edremit](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/edremit) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Turkey](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-TR)


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