Akyaka, Ula

Akyaka
Akyaka aerial view
Akyaka
Location in Turkey
Akyaka
Akyaka (Turkey Aegean)
Coordinates: 37°03′N 28°19′E / 37.050°N 28.317°E / 37.050; 28.317
CountryTurkey
ProvinceMuğla
DistrictUla
Population
 (2022)
3,147
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)
Postal code
48640
Area code0252

Akyaka is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Ula, Muğla Province, Turkey. Its population is 3,147 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde). The town is situated at the far end of the Gulf of Gökova, at the start of the fertile Gökova plain, and is a rising center for international tourism. It is the first coastal town encountered on the busy road from the province center of Muğla to the resort center of Marmaris. Nearby Sakar Pass is a paragliding spot where the road descends from an altitude of 670m to sea-level in the space of a pine-clad section of a dozen kilometers along very sharp curves. At the base of the hill is the intersection to Akyaka.

The township of Akyaka is sometimes referred to as Gökova, after the name of the gulf and the plain, while there is also an inland township of Gökova neighbouring Akyaka, itself of visitor's interest and whose intersection is slightly further ahead from that of Akyaka in the direction of Marmaris.