title: Yayladağı
text: Yayladağı (), formerly Ordu (; ), is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 445 km2, and its population is 36,803 (2022). It is on the border with Syria,  south of the city of Antakya. 
  
  Yayladağı was heavily damaged by powerful earthquakes in February 2023 and subsequent aftershocks.
  
  Demographics
  19th-century German traveler Martin Hartmann noted that the town was made up of 150 Muslim and 30 Greek households. He further listed 29 additional settlements in the Ottoman nahiyah of Urdu: 18 settlements  were Sunni Muslim (totaling to 495 houses), 14 of which were Turkish (400 houses). 1 settlement was Alawite (20 houses). 2 settlements were Armenian, one being Kessab (200 houses) and the other a village (15 houses). Hartmann didn't include any information on the remaining 7 settlements.
  
  After the Syrian Civil War broke out, nearly 2,000 Syrian Turkmen moved here from Turkmen Mountain.
  
  Geography
  
  Today, Yayladağı itself is a small town, providing the district with a health centre, high schools and other basics.
  
  This is a mountainous district with a typical Mediterranean climate of hot, dry summers and warm, wet winters, but being inland and high up, Yayladağı is cooler than most of Hatay, even seeing snow on the mountain peaks in winter. The main source of income is agriculture,  of the land (small valleys and plateau in the mountains) is cultivated with olives, tobacco, vegetables, grains and other crops, the remainder is forest and mountain. The mountainsides are covered with pine, sandalwood and rough oak, or else shrubs including bay, thyme and oleander. Animals, especially goats, are grazed on the hillsides.
  
  Yayladağı has a border crossing into Syria, and the village of Topraktutan, Turkey's southernmost point. The state road D.825 (European route E91) connects the border checkpoint with Antakya.
  
  Composition
  There are 47 neighbourhoods in Yayladağı District:
  
   Arslanyazı
   Aşağıpulluyazı
   Aydınbahçe
   Ayışığı
   Bezge
   Bozlu
   Çabala
   Çakıköy
   Çaksına
   Çamaltı
   Çandır
   Çatbaşı
   Çayır
   Denizgören
   Dusduru
   Eğerci
   Görentaş
   Gözlüce
   Gürışık
   Güveççi
   Güzelyurt
   Hisarcık
   Karacurun
   Karaköse
   Kışlak
   Kızılçat
   Kösrelik
   Kulaç
   Kurtuluş
   Leylekli
   Olgunlar
   Şakşak
   Sebenoba
   Şenköy
   Sungur
   Sürütme
   Turfanda
   Tutlubahçe
   Üçırmak
   Uluyol
   Yalaz
   Yayıkdamlar
   Yeniceköy
   Yeşiltepe
   Yoncakaya
   Yukarıokçular
   Yukarıpulluyazı
  
  References
  
  External links
  District governorate's official website 
  
   
  Syria–Turkey border crossings
  Populated places in Hatay Province
  Districts of Hatay Province
  Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey