Akbük is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of

Didim Didim is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Aydın Province, Turkey. Its area is 424 km2, and its population is 97,000 (2022). It is a popular seaside holiday resort on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of western Turkey, from t ...

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. Its population is 7,643 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''

belde Belde (literally "town", also known as ''kasaba'') means "large village with a municipality" in Turkish language, Turkish. All Turkish province centers and district centers have municipalities, but the Villages of Turkey, villages are usually too ...

''). It is a small holiday resort on a bay in the

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near

. It has a permanent population of 7,600 and a summer population of 50,000. It was bounded to

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district in

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before being moved to the

district in

in 1991. It was a municipality since 1991. Akbük is served by

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, which is approximately 60 km away, and

Adnan Menderes Airport Adnan () is traditionally regarded as the patriarch of the Adnanite Arabs, a major Arab lineage that historically inhabited Northern, Western, Eastern, and Central Arabia. The Adnanites are distinct from the Qahtanite Arabs of Southern Arabia ...

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, which is approximately 140 km away. Akbük continues to be predominantly a holiday resort for Turkish people with around 60,000 visitors in the summer, most of whom own property in the town. The expansion of hotels and holiday complex sites in the area has led to an increase of foreign visitors from Europe and Russia. In addition to Turkish, English and German are widely spoken as well.

References

Neighbourhoods in Didim District Fishing communities in Turkey {{Aydın-geo-stub