Its distance to Karaman is 59 kilometres (37 mi).

According to page of Karaman news, the founders of the village were the members of a tribe named Ağaçeri and were Akıncı (irregular cavalry in the early years of the Ottoman Empire) .

But in the second half of the 19th century the village was split into two parts.

Yukarıakın (literally "upper Akın") is the name of the western part.

[3] The main economic activity of Yukarıakın is agriculture.