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Samsun Province

Samsun

Samsun, in the 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.
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  • Type: City with 1,300,000 residents
  • Description: city in northern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Djanik”, “Janik”, and “Sams”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Samsun Gazi Museum and Samsun railway station.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a museum dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Samsun, . The museum is at in the secondary municipality of . It is situated in Mecidiye Cad. at Kale neighborhood in the city center.

Railway station
Photo: Robot8A, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Samsun Station is the main at-grade train station belonging to Turkish State Railways, located in the İstasyon neighborhood of the district of Samsun.

Stadium
Photo: Anlztrk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a track and field facility located in district of , northern Turkey. It was renovated for the 2017 Summer Deaflympics.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include İlkadım and Canik.

Town
Photo: Hüseyin Öcal, CC BY 3.0.
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 155 km2, and its population is 333,518. It is located on the coast of .

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 264 km2, and its population is 100,641. It is located to the east of the city center of Samsun.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 11,214. It lies between two military areas.

Samsun

Latitude
41.2946° or 41° 17′ 41″ north
Longitude
36.3321° or 36° 19′ 55″ east
Population
1,300,000
Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)
IATA airport codes
SZF and SSX
United Nations Location Code
TR SSX
Open location code
8GHR78VJ+RR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26486105
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
740264
Wiki­data ID
Q160450
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Samsun” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Samsuni”
  • Arabic: “سامسون”
  • Arabic: “سمسون”
  • Arabic: “صامسون”
  • Arabic: “صمسون”
  • Armenian: “Սամսուն”
  • Asturian: “Samsun (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Samsun”
  • Azerbaijani: “Samsun”
  • Basque: “Samsun”
  • Belarusian: “Самсун”
  • Bengali: “সামসুন”
  • Bosnian: “Samsun”
  • Breton: “Samsun”
  • Bulgarian: “Самсун”
  • Catalan: “Amisos”
  • Catalan: “Atenocles d’Atenes”
  • Catalan: “Atènocles d’Atenes”
  • Catalan: “Samsum”
  • Catalan: “Samsun”
  • Cebuano: “Samsun (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Samsun”
  • Central Kurdish: “سامسون”
  • Chechen: “Самсун”
  • Chinese: “森松”
  • Chinese: “萨姆松”
  • Chinese: “薩姆松”
  • Croatian: “Samsun”
  • Czech: “Samsun”
  • Danish: “Samsun”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Samsun”
  • Dutch: “Samsun”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سامسون”
  • Esperanto: “Samsun”
  • Estonian: “Samsun”
  • Finnish: “Amisos”
  • Finnish: “Samsun”
  • French: “Amisos”
  • French: “Amisus”
  • French: “Samsoun”
  • French: “Samsun”
  • Gagauz: “Samsun”
  • Galician: “Amisos”
  • Galician: “Samsun”
  • Georgian: “სამსუნი”
  • German: “Samsun”
  • Gilaki: “صامسۊن”
  • Greek: “Αμισός” (historical)
  • Greek: “Σαμψούντα”
  • Gujarati: “સૅમસન”
  • Hebrew: “סמסון”
  • Hindi: “सामसुन”
  • Hindi: “सैमसन”
  • Hindi: “सैमसून”
  • Hungarian: “Samsun”
  • Indonesian: “Samsun”
  • Irish: “Samsun”
  • Italian: “Amiso”
  • Italian: “Amisus”
  • Italian: “Samsun”
  • Japanese: “サムスン”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾಮ್ಸನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Samswn”
  • Kazakh: “Самсун”
  • Kazakh: “سامسۋن”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Samsun”
  • Korean: “삼순”
  • Kurdish: “Samsûn”
  • Latvian: “Samsuna”
  • Lithuanian: “Amisas”
  • Lithuanian: “Samsunas”
  • Lithuanian: “Samsūnas”
  • Macedonian: “Самсун”
  • Malay: “Samsun”
  • Marathi: “सॅमसून”
  • Mazanderani: “صامسون”
  • Minangkabau: “Samsun”
  • Mingrelian: “ამისოსი”
  • Mingrelian: “სამსუნი”
  • Nauru: “Samsun”
  • Northern Frisian: “Samsun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Samsun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samsun”
  • Norwegian: “Samsun”
  • Ossetian: “Самсун”
  • Persian: “سامسون”
  • Polish: “Amisos”
  • Polish: “Samsun”
  • Portuguese: “Amisos”
  • Portuguese: “Canik”
  • Portuguese: “Samessum”
  • Portuguese: “Sampsounda”
  • Portuguese: “Sampsunta”
  • Portuguese: “Samsounta”
  • Portuguese: “Samsun”
  • Portuguese: “Samsunta”
  • Pushto: “سامسون”
  • Romanian: “Samsun”
  • Russian: “Samsun”
  • Russian: “Самсун (город)”
  • Russian: “Самсун (Турция)”
  • Russian: “Самсун”
  • Scots: “Samsun”
  • Serbian: “Samsun”
  • Serbian: “Самсун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Samsun”
  • Sinhala: “සැම්සන්”
  • Sinhala: “සැම්සුන්”
  • Slovak: “Samsun”
  • Slovenian: “Amis”
  • Slovenian: “Samsun”
  • Somali: “Samsun”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سامسون”
  • Spanish: “Amisos”
  • Spanish: “Samsun”
  • Swahili: “Samsun”
  • Swedish: “Amisos”
  • Swedish: “Samsun”
  • Swedish: “Samzounda”
  • Tajik: “Самсун”
  • Talysh: “Samsun”
  • Tamil: “சாம்சங்”
  • Tamil: “சாம்சன்”
  • Tatar: “Самсун”
  • Telugu: “సామ్సన్”
  • Thai: “ซัมซุน”
  • Turkish: “Amisus”
  • Turkish: “Canik”
  • Turkish: “Samsun”
  • Twi: “Samsun”
  • Udmurt: “Самсун”
  • Ukrainian: “Самсун”
  • Urdu: “سامسون”
  • Urdu: “صامسون”
  • Uzbek: “Samsun”
  • Venetian: “Samsun”
  • Vietnamese: “Samsun”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Samsun”
  • Western Mari: “Самсун”
  • Western Panjabi: “سیمسن”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨姆松”
  • Yue Chinese: “森松”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩姆松”
  • “Amisos”
  • “Amisus”
  • “Samsun”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Samsun”. Photo: 𐰇𐱅𐰚𐰤, CC BY-SA 3.0.