Tekirdağ is part of the historical region known as Eastern Thrace. Tekirdağ is the capital of Tekirdağ.
Tekirdağ is situated on the northern coast of the Marmara Sea, 135 km (84 miles) west of Tekirdağ Istanbul.Golful picturesque headland is surrounded by great mountain, which gives the city its name, Tekir Dağı (ancient Combos), a spur 2000 ft hilly plateau which rises in the north. Between Tekirdağ and Şarköy is another mountain, Ganos Dağı.

The Rakoczi Museum, an 18th-century Turkish house, where the Hungarian national hero, Francis II Rákóczi lived during his exile, from 1720 till his death in 1735. Today, the museum is a property of the Republic of Hungary and is widely visited, having become a place of national pilgrimage.
The church of Panagia (Virgin Mary) Rheumatocratissa contains the graves, with long Latin inscriptions, of other Hungarians who took refuge here with their leader.
The birthplace of 19th-century poet, Namık Kemal, now a museum to his life and work.
Of all the statues of Atatürk in Turkey, the town centre of Tekirdağ holds the only one that was made exactly life-size.