Giresun
Giresun is a city in the Eastern Karadeniz region, on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. In 2023 the population was 144,000.
- Type: City with 126,000 residents
- Description: central district and city in Giresun Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Cerasonte”, “Cérasonte”, “Cerasunt”, “Cerasunte”, “Choerades”, “Farnacea”, “Farnaceia”, “Farnacia”, “Girasunt”, “Gireson”, “Giresun City”, “Giresun Merkez”, “Girezounda”, “Jimbo la Giresun”, “Kerason”, “Kerasos”, “Kerasounta”, “Kérassoune”, “Kerassounta”, “Kerassunde”, “Kerasun”, “Kerasund”, “Kerasunda”, “Kerasunt”, “Kerasus”, “Kérésoum”, “Kérésoun”, “Kiresun”, “Pharnacia”, “Pharnakeia”, “Карасунд”, “Керасунт”, and “گیرسون”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Port of Giresun and Şeyh Keramettin Mosque.
Giresun
- Categories: big city, municipality, and locality
- Location: Giresun, Giresun Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
40.9176° or 40° 55′ 4″ north
Longitude
38.3842° or 38° 23′ 3″ east
Population
126,000
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
IATA airport code
OGU
UN/LOCODE
TR GIR
Open location code
8GGWW99M+3M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Giresun” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ግሬሱን”
- Arabic: “غيرسون”
- Arabic: “كيرة سون”
- Armenian: “Գիրեսուն”
- Armenian: “Գիրեսունի մարզ”
- Armenian: “Կերասուն”
- Asturian: “Giresun”
- Azerbaijani: “Giresun”
- Belarusian: “Гірэсун”
- Bengali: “গিরেসুন”
- Bulgarian: “Гиресун”
- Catalan: “Giresun”
- Cebuano: “Giresun”
- Central Kurdish: “گیرەسون”
- Chechen: “Гиресун”
- Chinese: “吉雷松”
- Czech: “Giresun”
- Danish: “Giresun”
- Dimli (individual language): “Giresun”
- Dutch: “Giresun”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيرسون”
- Esperanto: “Giresun”
- Finnish: “Giresun”
- French: “Giresun”
- Gagauz: “Giresun”
- Georgian: “გირესუნი”
- Georgian: “გირესუნის პროვინცია”
- German: “Giresun”
- Gilaki: “گرهسۊن”
- Greek: “Κερασούντα”
- Gujarati: “ગિયરસન”
- Hausa: “Giresun”
- Hebrew: “גירסון”
- Hindi: “गिरेसुं”
- Hindi: “गिरेसुन”
- Hindi: “घिरसुन”
- Hungarian: “Giresun”
- Indonesian: “Giresun”
- Irish: “Giresun”
- Italian: “Giresun”
- Japanese: “ギレスン”
- Javanese: “Giresun”
- Kannada: “ಗಿರಿಸುನ್”
- Kazakh: “Гиресун”
- Kinyarwanda: “Giresun”
- Kirghiz: “Гиресун”
- Korean: “기레순”
- Latin: “Cerasus”
- Latvian: “Giresuna”
- Lithuanian: “Giresunas”
- Macedonian: “Гиресун”
- Malay: “Giresun”
- Marathi: “जायरसन”
- Mazanderani: “گرهسون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Giresun”
- Minangkabau: “Giresun”
- Moksha: “Гирэсун”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Giresun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Giresun”
- Norwegian: “Giresun”
- Oromo: “Giresun”
- Ossetian: “Гиресун”
- Panjabi: “ਗਿਰੇਸੁਨ”
- Persian: “گرهسون”
- Polish: “Giresun”
- Pontic: “Κερασούντα”
- Portuguese: “Giresun”
- Portuguese: “Guiressum”
- Pushto: “گریسون”
- Romanian: “Giresun”
- Russian: “Гиресун”
- Scots: “Giresun”
- Serbian: “Giresun”
- Serbian: “Гиресун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Giresun”
- Silesian: “Giresun”
- Sinhala: “ගිරේසන්”
- Somali: “Giresun”
- South Azerbaijani: “گیرهسون”
- Spanish: “Giresun”
- Swahili: “Giresun”
- Swedish: “Giresun”
- Tajik: “Гиресун”
- Talysh: “Giresun”
- Tamil: “கிரேசன்”
- Tatar: “Гиресун”
- Telugu: “గిరేసన్”
- Thai: “กีเรซุน”
- Turkish: “Giresun”
- Udmurt: “Гиресун”
- Ukrainian: “Гіресун”
- Ukrainian: “Ґіресун”
- Urdu: “گریسون”
- Uzbek: “Giresun”
- Venetian: “Giresun”
- Vietnamese: “Giresun”
- Volapük: “Giresun”
- Waray (Philippines): “Giresun”
- Western Armenian: “Կիրեսուն”
- Western Mari: “Гиресун”
- Western Panjabi: “گریسن”
- “Giresun”
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