Acarlar Floodplain Forest (Turkish: Acarlar Gölü Longozu) is a floodplain forest located in Sakarya Province, northwestern Turkey. It is a combination of seaside, lagoon, dunes, and forest.
Situated between Karasu and Kaynarca north of Sakarya on the coast of Black Sea, it is Turkey's biggest and only mono-bloc floodplain forest. Its distance to Karasu is around 26 km (16 mi) and to Sakarya around 50 km (31 mi). Around the area, there are five villages of Karasu district and three of Kaynarca district.
At a distance of 2 km (1.2 mi) from the Black Sea, the floodplain forest stretches over 12 km (7.5 mi) long at a width of 1.0–1.5 km (0.62–0.93 mi).
The lagoon is accessible on the road İhsaniye-Denizköy.
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