Marmaris is a town in Turkey, along the Agean coast in the province of Mugla. It has around 28 000 inhabitants, however the population can be up to 250,000 during the height of the tourist-season.

Turkey is located on the Mediterranean, in the Anatolian region of West Asia, with a small section in Southeastern Europe separated by the Turkish Straits (Bosphorus, Sea of Marmara, and Dardanelles). With the Black Sea to the north and the Aegean Sea in the west and Mediterranean Sea to the southwest, Turkey is surrounded by Bulgaria and Greece to the west, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia to the northeast, Syria, Iraq and Iran to the southeast.