Ceyhan

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Template:Infobox Turkey place Ceyhan (Template:IPA) is a municipality and district of Adana Province, Turkey.<ref>Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.</ref> Its area is 1,426 km2,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and its population is 158,922 (2022).<ref name=tuik>Template:Cite web</ref> 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)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> 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 Template:DWT 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.<ref name="v260">Template:Cite web</ref>

Transport

Adana Şakirpaşa Airport is the closest airport to Ceyhan Template:Cvt 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

Composition

There are 112 neighbourhoods in Ceyhan District:<ref>Mahalle, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.</ref> Template:Div col

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International relations

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