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Ceyhan

Field	Value
type	metro district
name	Ceyhan
image_skyline	Ceyhan General view 5756.jpg
image_map	Adana location Ceyhan.svg
map_caption	Map showing Ceyhan District in Adana Province
coordinates
province	Adana
leader_party	CHP
leader_name	Sevil Aydar Yıldız (acting)
area_total_km2	1426
population_footnotes
population_total	158922
population_as_of	2022
postal_code	01960
area_code	0322
website

Ceyhan () is a municipality and district of Adana Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,426 km2, and its population is 158,922 (2022). It is the most populous district of the province, outside the city of Adana. Ceyhan is the transportation hub for Middle Eastern and Central Asian oil and natural gas. The city is situated on the Ceyhan River that flows through the Çukurova plain. The Ceyhan River is dammed at Aslantas to provide flood control and irrigation for the lower river basin around Ceyhan.

Climate

Ceyhan has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa) with very hot, muggy summers with low precipitation, and mild, rainy winters.

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Economy

Ceyhan's marine transport terminal is the Mediterranean terminus of the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline (the "BTC") which brings crude oil from the landlocked Caspian Sea across Azerbaijan and Georgia, and entering Turkey in the northeast. The pipeline was completed in May 2005. The terminal contains seven storage tanks, a jetty capable of loading two tankers of up to simultaneously, metering facilities, a waste water treatment plant and vapor incineration ("burn-off") facilities.

Ceyhan Terminal is also the destination of Kirkuk–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline but this was closed in 2024 due to a payment dispute.

Transport

Adana Şakirpaşa Airport is the closest airport to Ceyhan 60 km west of the city. There are domestic and international flights to numerous destinations from the airport. There was a plane crash here in 1999. A Saudi bound plane carrying Hajj pilgrims crashed a few minutes after take off. There were many deaths.

Ceyhan railway station was opened in 1912 as part of the Berlin–Baghdad railway. The station is currently served by two regional lines and one long-distance line. Regional lines run from Mersin to İskenderun and Mersin to İslahiye; long-distance line runs from Adana to Elazığ. There are three services daily to Adana Central Station to connect to the western destinations; Mersin, Ankara, Karaman and Kayseri.

Places of interest

The Caravanserai of Kurtkulağı - built in 1659 by Hüseyin Paşa, architect Mehmed Ağa.
Tumlu Kale or Dumlukale - another castle.
Sirkeli Höyük - built to commemorate a battle here between Hittite emperor Muvattali and the Egyptian pharaoh Rameses.

Composition

There are 112 neighbourhoods in Ceyhan District:

Adapınar
Adatepe
Ağaçlı
Ağaçpınar
Akdam
Altıgözbekirli
Altıkara
Altıocak
Atatürk
Aydınlar
Aytemuroğlu
Azizli
Başören
Belediye Evleri
Birkent
Bota
Burhaniye
Burhanlı
Büyükburhaniye
Büyükkırım
Büyükmangıt
Çakaldere
Camuzağılı
Çataklı
Çatalhüyük
Çevretepe
Ceyhanbekirli
Çiçekli
Çiftlikler
Civantayak
Çokçapınar
Cumhuriyet
Dağıstan
Değirmendere
Değirmenli
Dikilitaş
Dokuztekne
Doruk
Durhasandede
Dutlupınar
Ekinyazı
Elmagölü
Emek
Erenler
Esentepe
Fatih Sultan Mehmet
Gazi Osman Paşa
Gümürdülü
Gündoğan
Günlüce
Hamdilli
Hamidiye
Hamitbey
Hamitbeybucağı
Hürriyet
İmran
İnceyer
İnönü
Irmaklı
İsalı
Isırganlı
İstiklal
Karakayalı
Kelemeti
Kılıçkaya
Kıvrıklı
Kızıldere
Konakoğlu
Köprülü
Körkuyu
Koruklu
Kösreli
Küçükburhaniye
Küçükkırım
Küçükmangıt
Kurtkulağı
Kurtpınar
Kuzucak
Mercimek
Mercin
Mithatpaşa
Modernevler
Muradiye
Mustafabeyli
Namık Kemal
Narlık
Nazımbey Yeniköy
Sağırlar
Sağkaya
Şahin Özbilen
Sarıbahçe
Sarımazı
Sarısakal
Şehit Hacı Ibrahim
Selimiye
Sirkeli
Soğukpınar
Soysallı
Tatarlı
Tatlıkuyu
Toktamış
Tumlu
Üçdutyeşilova
Ulus
Veysiye
Yalak
Yarsuat
Yellibel
Yeşilbahçe
Yeşildam
Yılankale
Zübeyde Hanım

International relations

Ceyhan is twinned with:

AZE Sumgait, Azerbaijan

Footnotes

References

[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
"İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping.
"Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports". [[TÜİK]].
"Table 1 Overview of the Köppen-Geiger climate classes including the defining criteria.". Nature: Scientific Data.
Gary Dixon (g_dixon). (2024-10-08). "No way out: ‘Hormuz closure would rock tanker markets’, says BRS".
[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
"Twin-cities of Azerbaijan". Azerbaijans.com.
"Sumqayıt şəhər icra hakimiyyəti. Beynəlxalq Əlaqələr".

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