1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Türkiye
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Adana—1,816,750, Europe/Istanbul, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: central district and city in Adana Province, Turkey.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Adana is GeoNames ID 325363. Its recorded administrative path is Adana → Türkiye, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Adana occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Adana ranks 237 by recorded population. Inside the 26 selected Türkiye entries it ranks 7; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 53. Its 1,816,750 population value is 2.29 times the 792,110 median for the country cohort and 2.01 times the 902,588 regional median. Adana falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Türkiye population cohort. Adana's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Adana's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Mersin at 64.04 km with 537,842 recorded people; Latakia at 167.076 km with 709,000 recorded people; Gaziantep at 182.811 km with 2,222,415 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 118.771 km. Compared with Mersin, Adana's recorded population is 3.38 times as large. Against Adana, Mersin follows Mersin → Türkiye in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Adana's. Against Adana, Latakia follows Latakia → Syria in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Syria cohort rather than Türkiye, uses Asia/Damascus instead of Europe/Istanbul, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Adana's. Against Adana, Gaziantep follows Gaziantep → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Adana's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 523 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Adana's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 325363, the coordinate pair 36.9862 / 35.3253, country rank 7 of 26, and neighbor GeoNames 304531 at 64.04 km bind Adana to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Adana's reference point is 36.9862° north and 35.3253° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Istanbul is shared by 26 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Adana's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Adana's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Adana's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Adana, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Adana's closest other entries in this atlas are Mersin (64.04 km), Latakia (167.076 km), Gaziantep (182.811 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.