Karaağaç is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Arsuz, Hatay Province, Turkey.Mahalle , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023. Its population is 33,718 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde). Also in 2013, it passed from the district of İskenderun to the new district of Arsuz. It is subdivided into four mahalle: Cumhuriyet, Konarlı, Övündük and Şarkonak.
Karaağaç is very close to İskenderun and it is almost at the coast of Mediterranean Sea. Its distance to Antakya (center of the province) is about . Karaağaç is a relatively new town. 200 years ago, five close villages were founded by the people from Belen, a district center about at the north. After a considerable increase in population, in 1986 four of these villages voted to be united as a township. Now the former villages are the quarters of the town.
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