Mugla Province

Muğla Province Muğla ili
Province of Turkey
Location of Muğla Province in Turkey
Country	Turkey
Region	Aegean
Subregion	Aydın
Government
• Electoral district	Muğla
• Governor	Ahmet Altıparmak
Area
• Total	13,338 km2 (5,150 sq mi)
Population (2010-12-31)
• Total	817,503
• Density	61/km2 (160/sq mi)
Area code(s)	0252
Vehicle registration	48

Muğla Province (Turkish: Muğla ili, pronounced [ˌmuːɫa iˈli]) is a province of Turkey, at the country's south-western corner, on the Aegean Sea. Its seat is Muğla, about 20 km (12 mi) inland, while some of Turkey's largest holiday resorts, such as Bodrum, Ölüdeniz, Marmaris and Fethiye, are on the coast in Muğla.

The original name of Muğla is open for discussion. Various sources refer to the city as Mogola, Mobella or Mobolia.

At 1,100 km (680 mi), Muğla's coastline is the longest among the Provinces of Turkey and longer than many countries' coastlines, (even without taking any small islands into account). Important is the Datça Peninsula. As well as the sea, Muğla has two large lakes, Lake Bafa in the district of Milas and Lake Köyceğiz. The landscape consists of pot-shaped small plains surrounded by mountains, formed by depressions in the Neogene. These include the plain of the city of Muğla itself, Yeşilyurt, Ula, Gülağzı, Yerkesik, Akkaya, Çamköy () and Yenice). Until the recent building of highways, transport from these plains to either the coast or inland was quite arduous, and thus each locality remained an isolated culture of its own. Contact with the outside world was through one of the three difficult passes: northwest to Milas, north to the Menderes plain through Gökbel, or northeast to Tavas.

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