Type: | neighbourhood |
Province: | Hatay |
District: | Arsuz |
Karaağaç | |
Population Total: | 33718 |
Population As Of: | 2022 |
Coordinates: | 36.5667°N 44°W |
Elevation M: | 9 |
Postal Code: | 31290 |
Area Code: | 0326 |
Karaağaç is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Arsuz, Hatay Province, Turkey.[1] Its population is 33,718 (2022).[2] Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde).[3] [4] Also in 2013, it passed from the district of İskenderun to the new district of Arsuz.[3] It is subdivided into four mahalle: Cumhuriyet, Konarlı, Övündük and Şarkonak.[1]
Karaağaç is very close to İskenderun and it is almost at the coast of Mediterranean Sea. Its distance to Antakya (center of the province) is about . Karaağaç is a relatively new town. 200 years ago, five close villages were founded by the people from Belen, a district center about at the north. After a considerable increase in population, in 1986 four of these villages voted to be united as a township. Now the former villages are the quarters of the town.[5]