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'''Şanlıurfa''' (officially, and thus signs and maps always refer to it this way) or '''Urfa''' (pre-1984 name, colloquially and locally the city is always referred in this way) is a city in [[Southeastern Anatolia]]. It lies on west-east highway '''D400''', which is assigned European highway number '''E90'''.

Urfa is quite a big city, so getting to the exit on foot takes more than an hour from the city centre. The descriptions below take the ''Balıklıgöl'' ("Fish Pond") area in the old city—the most widely visited part of the city—as a starting point.

From ''Balıklıgöl'', walk towards the main highway through the city by following "Diyarbakır" and/or "Mardin" signs. After walking for about 20 minutes, you'll reach the highway. Then once along the highway, turn right towards east, still following "Diyarbakır" and "Mardin" signs. After walking a slightly uphill section and in about 45 minutes since you started at ''Balıklıgöl'', you'll reach a large roundabout - here the road to Diyarbakır forks away so from this point on just follow "Mardin" signs. You still have a further ~20 minutes to walk to get to the outlying suburbs of the city. You may start thumbing when you find a good spot with a wide shoulder at one of the traffic lights in rows, because edge of the city is still away. It's very easy to attract a ride, though, as is in the rest of Southeastern Anatolia.