Giresun Island
Giresun Island is a small island that has an area of 4 hectares and lies 1.2 km from the Turkish city of Giresun on the southeastern coast of Black Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island off Giresun, Turkey, the ancient Aretias
- Also known as: “Big Island”, “Buy Adası”, “Büyük Adası”, and “Puga Island”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Giresun and Keşap.
Giresun
Photo: Zcebeci, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Giresun is a city in the Eastern Karadeniz region, on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. In 2023 the population was 144,000.
Keşap
Town
Photo: Zcebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Keşap is a town in Giresun Province on the Black Sea coast of Turkey just to the east of the city of Giresun. It is the seat of Keşap District. Its population is 9,227. The TV sitcom Uy! Başuma Gelenler was filmed in a village in Keşap.
Giresun Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Giresun Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.92933° or 40° 55′ 46″ northLongitude
38.43671° or 38° 26′ 12″ eastElevation
21 metres (69 feet)Open location code
8GGWWCHP+PMOpenStreetMap ID
way 362384141OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
746880Wikidata ID
Q1526709
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Giresun Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة جايرصن”
- Armenian: “Գիրեսուն կղզի”
- Azerbaijani: “Giresun adası”
- Cebuano: “Giresun Adası”
- Chinese: “吉雷松島”
- Croatian: “Giresun (otok)”
- Croatian: “Giresun”
- Dutch: “Giresun eiland”
- Dutch: “Giresuneiland”
- German: “Aretias”
- German: “Giresun Adasi”
- German: “Giresun Adası”
- German: “Giresun-Insel”
- Greek: “Άρεος νήσος”
- Greek: “Αρητιάς”
- Greek: “Ἀρητιάς”
- Greek: “νησί της Κερασούντας”
- Greek: “Νησί της Κερασούντας”
- Greek: “Χαλκερίτης”
- Italian: “Isola di Ares”
- Macedonian: “Гиресун (остров)”
- Macedonian: “Гиресун”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Giresunøya”
- Portuguese: “Amazon Adası”
- Portuguese: “Areos Nesos”
- Portuguese: “Ares”
- Portuguese: “Aretias”
- Portuguese: “Giresun Adası)”
- Portuguese: “Ilha das Amazonas”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Giresun”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Guiressum”
- Portuguese: “Puga”
- Spanish: “Isla Giresun”
- Turkish: “Area”
- Turkish: “Areionesos”
- Turkish: “Areos”
- Turkish: “Aretias”
- Turkish: “Chalceritis”
- Turkish: “Giresun adası”
- Turkish: “Giresun Adası”
- Turkish: “Nesos”
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