Ceyhan () is a municipality and

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Adana Province Adana Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey located in central Cilicia. The administrative seat of the province is the city of Adana, home to 78.25% of the r ...

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. 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 Adana is a large city in southern Turkey. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the administrative seat of the Adana Province, Adana province, and has a population of 1 81 ...

. Ceyhan is the transportation hub for Middle Eastern and Central Asian oil and natural gas. The city is situated on the

Ceyhan River The Ceyhan River (historically Pyramos or Pyramus (), Leucosyrus () or Jihun) is a river in Anatolia in the south of Turkey. Course of the river The Ceyhan River (Pyramus) has its source (known as ''Söğütlü Dere'') at a location called '' ...

that flows through

Çukurova Çukurova (), or the Cilician Plain (''Cilicia Pedias'' in antiquity), is a large fertile plain in the Cilicia region of southern Anatolia. The plain covers the easternmost areas of Mersin Province, southern and central Adana Province, western Os ...

plain. The Ceyhan River is dammed at Aslantas to provide

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and irrigation for the lower river basin around Ceyhan.

Climate

Ceyhan has a

Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate ( ), also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen and Trewartha as ''Cs'', is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude). Such climates typic ...

(

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: ''Csa'') with very hot, muggy summers with low precipitation, and mild, rainy winters.

Economy

Ceyhan's marine transport terminal is the Mediterranean terminus of the

Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and Ceyhan, a port on the south-easte ...

(the "BTC") which brings

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from the landlocked

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across

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and

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, 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 Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use. The end use may be drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation, river flow maintenance, water recreation or many other uses, inc ...

and vapor

incineration Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials. Industrial plants for waste incineration are commonly referred to as waste-to-energy facilities. Incineration and other high ...

("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.

Contemporary Life

Ceyhan is the second most developed and populated district of

after the center of

. The river runs through the district.

Transport

Adana Şakirpaşa Airport is the closest airport to Ceyhan 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

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and Mersin to

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; long-distance line runs from

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

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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: *

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Footnotes

{{Authority control Çukurova Populated places in Adana Province Districts of Adana Province Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey