1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Türkiye
Compare this sourced profile of Mersin, Türkiye before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Mersin—537,842, 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: city in Turkey.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Mersin is GeoNames ID 304531. Its recorded administrative path is Mersin → Türkiye, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Mersin 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 2025-06-04; 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, Mersin ranks 1,047 by recorded population. Inside the 26 selected Türkiye entries it ranks 20; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 218. Its 537,842 population value is 0.68 times the 792,110 median for the country cohort and 0.60 times the 902,588 regional median. Mersin sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Türkiye entries. Mersin's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Mersin's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Adana at 64.04 km with 1,816,750 recorded people; Latakia at 175.989 km with 709,000 recorded people; Konya at 223.919 km with 1,433,861 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 159.879 km. Compared with Adana, Mersin's recorded population is 0.30 times as large. Against Mersin, Adana follows Adana → 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 Mersin's. Against Mersin, 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 above Mersin's. Against Mersin, Konya follows Konya → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher 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 above Mersin's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 523 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Mersin'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 304531, the coordinate pair 36.8120 / 34.6389, country rank 20 of 26, and neighbor GeoNames 325363 at 64.04 km bind Mersin to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Mersin's reference point is 36.8120° north and 34.6389° 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. Mersin's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Mersin's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Mersin's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Mersin, 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
Mersin's closest other entries in this atlas are Adana (64.04 km), Latakia (175.989 km), Konya (223.919 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-04; 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.