Atakum
Atakum is a municipality and district of Samsun Province, Turkey. Its area is 351 km2, and its population is 242,171. Atakum is a largely middle class suburban district located to the west of the primary city of Samsun and further suburban Ondokuzmayıs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 239,000 residents
- Description: ilçe (district), administrative county of Samsun, northern Turkey
- Also known as: “Atakent” and “Atakum district”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mustafa Dağıstanlı Sports Hall.
Mustafa Dağıstanlı Sports Hall
Health club
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Mustafa Dağıstanlı Sports Hall is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in İlkadım district of Samsun Province, northern Turkey. It was named in honor of Mustafa Dağıstanlı, a local sport wrestler, who became twice Olympic and three times world champion in freestyle. Mustafa Dağıstanlı Sports Hall is situated 4 km east of Atakum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Samsun and Güzelyalı.
Samsun
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Samsun, in the Central Karadeniz region of Turkey, is the largest city on the Turkish Black Sea coast. In 2021 it had a population of 710,000, with about as many more in its surrounding province.
Güzelyalı
Suburb
Guzelyalı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Atakum, Samsun Province, Turkey. It is an affluent residential neighbourhood. The neighbourhood had a population of 4,253 as of 2022, up from 1,762 in 2007.
Kadifekale
Suburb
Kadifekale is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of İlkadım, Samsun Province, Turkey. Its population is 11,214. It lies between two military areas. Kadifekale is situated 5 km southeast of Atakum.
Atakum
- Categories: municipality, district of Turkey, and locality
- Location: Samsun Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
41.3323° or 41° 19′ 56″ northLongitude
36.2705° or 36° 16′ 14″ eastPopulation
239,000Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)Open location code
8GHR87JC+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 966597337OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
9549747Wikidata ID
Q4812671
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Atakum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أتاقوم”
- Arabic: “أَتَاقُوم”
- Asturian: “Atakum (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Atakum”
- Cebuano: “Atakum”
- Chechen: “Атакум”
- Chinese: “Atakum”
- French: “Atakum”
- Gagauz: “Atakum”
- German: “Atakum”
- Irish: “Atakum”
- Italian: “Distretto di Atakum”
- Lithuanian: “Atakumas”
- Malay: “Atakum”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Atakum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Atakum”
- Norwegian: “Atakum”
- Persian: “آتاکوم”
- Russian: “Атакум”
- Serbian: “Атакум”
- Tatar: “Атакум”
- Turkish: “Atakum”
- Urdu: “آتاکوم”
- Urdu: “اتاقوم”
- Uzbek: “Atakum”
- Western Mari: “Атакум”
- “Atakum ilçesi”
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