Turkey
Samsun Province
Yakakent İlçesi

Yakakent

Yakakent is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 204 km2, and its population is 8,693. It is located on the Black Sea coast.
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  • Type: Town with 8,590 residents
  • Description: ilçe (district), administrative county of Samsun, northern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Gemenue”, “Gümenüz”, “Keymnue”, and “Yakakent district”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alaçam.

Town
Photo: Chawol, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 598 km2, and its population is 24,647. Scholars believe that is the site of the ancient city of Zaliche or Zaliches. is situated 6 km southeast of Yakakent.

Yakakent

Latitude
41.63295° or 41° 37′ 59″ north
Longitude
35.53159° or 35° 31′ 54″ east
Population
8,590
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Open location code
8GHQJGMJ+5J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27010659
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
738085
Wiki­data ID
Q1858384
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Yakakent” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يقاكند”
  • Arabic: “يَقَاكَنْد”
  • Asturian: “Yakakent (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Yakakent”
  • Cebuano: “Yakakent İlçesi”
  • Chechen: “Йакакент”
  • Chinese: “Yakakent”
  • Chinese: “亞卡肯特”
  • Dutch: “Yakakent”
  • French: “Yakakent”
  • German: “Yakakent”
  • Irish: “Yakakent”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Yakakent”
  • Japanese: “ヤカケント”
  • Lithuanian: “Jakakentas”
  • Malay: “Yakakent”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yakakent”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yakakent”
  • Norwegian: “Yakakent”
  • Persian: “یاکاکند”
  • Russian: “Якакент”
  • Serbian: “Јакакент”
  • Swahili: “Yakakent”
  • Tatar: “Якакент”
  • Turkish: “Gümenez”
  • Turkish: “Gümenos”
  • Turkish: “Kominos”
  • Turkish: “Yakakent”
  • Urdu: “یاکاقند”
  • Urdu: “یقاکند”
  • Vietnamese: “Yakakent”
  • Western Mari: “Якакент”
  • “Yakakent ilçesi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Yakakent”. Photo: sami yılmaz, CC BY 3.0.