Datça
Sign in to saveDatça is a municipality and district of Muğla Province, Turkey. Its area is 436 km2, and its population is 25,029 (2022). The town center is situated midway through the peninsula which carries the same name as the district and the town (Datça Peninsula). It was a nahiya of Marmaris District until 1928. Datça's first center in village of Reşadiye till 1947, when it was moved to present borough of İskele.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Datça
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Old Datca - Eski Datça - panoramio.jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- A street view in Old Datça
- Turkey place.image_map
- Muğla location Datça.svg
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Datça District in Muğla Province
- Turkey place.province
- Muğla
- Turkey place.leader_party
- CHP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Aytaç Kurt
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 436
- Turkey place.population_total
- 25029
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 48900
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0252
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Datça
- Population
- 10034
- Area
- 476
- Official website
- www.datca.bel.tr
- Image
- Datça.jpg
- Licence plate code
- 48
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- Commons category
- Datça
- urban population
- 24519
- native label
- دادجه
- rural population
- 5488
- name in kana
- ダトシャ
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- Composition
- Tourism
- Forest Fires
- Notable natives
- Twin Towns
- See also
- Footnotes
- External links
Datça is a municipality and district of Muğla Province, Turkey. Its area is 436 km2, and its population is 25,029 (2022). The town center is situated midway through the peninsula which carries the same name as the district and the town (Datça Peninsula). It was a nahiya of Marmaris District until 1928. Datça's first center in village of Reşadiye till 1947, when it was moved to present borough of İskele.
==Name== The name Datça comes from Stadia, an ancient town near Cnidus. Stadia developed into Tadya, Dadya, Dadça, and then Datça.
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