[1] It covers the central and eastern part of the city of Mersin and the adjacent countryside.

[4][5] At the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, the rural part of the district was integrated into the municipality, the villages becoming neighbourhoods.

[6] Akdeniz borders the other districts Toroslar to the north and Yenişehir to the west.

Mersin railway station, harbor, free port and maritime authority, as well as, shipping and customs agencies are in Akdeniz.

East of Akdeniz is industrial region, with a petroleum refinery and factories of glass, cement, ferrochrome and soda.