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Tarsus
City in Turkey

Tarsus

Tarsus is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey.

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Its area is 2,029 km2, and its population is 350,732 (2022). It is a historic city, 20 km inland from the Mediterranean Sea. It is part of the Adana-Mersin metropolitan area, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Turkey. Tarsus forms an administrative district in the eastern part of Mersin Province and lies at the heart of the Çukurova region.

How locals move

Getting around Tarsus the local way

  • Get inFrom the west change for a dolmuş at Mersin, from other directions change at Adana.
  • Get inYou'll need another dolmuş or a taxi to get there.

From Wikivoyage: Tarsus, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-01.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Dietmar Rabich (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.