Samsun
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.
- Type: City with 1,300,000 residents
- Description: city in northern Turkey
- Also known as: “Amis”, “Amisas”, “Amiso”, “Amisus”, “Atenocles d’Atenes”, “Atènocles d’Atenes”, “Canik”, “Djanik”, “Janik”, “Sampsounda”, “Sampsunta”, “Sams”, “Samsoun”, “Samsounta”, “Samsum”, “Samsun (distritu)”, “Samsūnas”, “Samsunta”, “Samzounda”, “Самсун (город)”, “Самсун (Турция)”, “ამისოსი”, “صمسون”, “सैमसन”, “சாம்சங்”, and “සැම්සන්”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Samsun Gazi Museum and Samsun railway station.
Samsun Gazi Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include İlkadım and Canik.
Kadifekale
Suburb
Kadifekale is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of İlkadım, Samsun Province, Turkey.
Samsun
- Categories: metropolitan municipality in Turkey, big city, and locality
- Location: Samsun Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
TR SSX
Open location code
8GHR78VJ+RR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Samsun” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Samsuni”
- Amharic: “ሳምሱን”
- Arabic: “سامسون”
- Arabic: “سمسون”
- Armenian: “Սամսուն”
- Asturian: “Samsun”
- Azerbaijani: “Samsun”
- Basque: “Samsun”
- Belarusian: “Самсун”
- Bengali: “সামসুন”
- Bosnian: “Samsun”
- Breton: “Samsun”
- Bulgarian: “Самсун”
- Catalan: “Samsun”
- Cebuano: “Samsun (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Samsun”
- Central Kurdish: “سامسون”
- Chechen: “Самсун”
- 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: “Samsun”
- French: “Samsun”
- Gagauz: “Samsun”
- Galician: “Amisos”
- Galician: “Samsun”
- Georgian: “სამსუნი”
- German: “Samsun”
- Gilaki: “صامسۊن”
- Greek: “Αμισός” (historical)
- Greek: “Σαμψούντα”
- Gujarati: “સૅમસન”
- Hausa: “Samsun”
- Hebrew: “סמסון”
- Hindi: “समसुन”
- Hindi: “सामसुन”
- Hindi: “सैमसून”
- Hungarian: “Samsun”
- Indonesian: “Samsun”
- Irish: “Samsun”
- Italian: “Samsun”
- Japanese: “サムスン”
- Javanese: “Samsun”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾಮ್ಸನ್”
- Kazakh: “Samswn”
- Kazakh: “Самсун”
- Kazakh: “سامسۋن”
- Kinyarwanda: “Samsun”
- Kirghiz: “Самсун”
- Korean: “삼순”
- Kurdish: “Samsûn”
- Latvian: “Samsuna”
- Lithuanian: “Samsunas”
- Macedonian: “Самсун”
- Malay: “Samsun”
- Marathi: “सॅमसून”
- Mazanderani: “صامسون”
- Minangkabau: “Samsun”
- Mingrelian: “სამსუნი”
- Nauru: “Samsun”
- Northern Frisian: “Samsun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samsun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samsun”
- Norwegian: “Samsun”
- Oromo: “Samsun”
- Ossetian: “Самсун”
- Panjabi: “ਸਮਸੁਨ”
- Persian: “سامسون”
- Polish: “Samsun”
- Portuguese: “Samessum”
- Portuguese: “Samsun”
- Pushto: “سامسون”
- Pushto: “سمسون”
- Romanian: “Samsun”
- Russian: “Самсун”
- Scots: “Samsun”
- Serbian: “Samsun”
- Serbian: “Самсун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Samsun”
- Sinhala: “සැම්සුන්”
- Slovak: “Samsun”
- Slovenian: “Samsun”
- Somali: “Samsun”
- South Azerbaijani: “سامسون”
- Spanish: “Samsun”
- Swahili: “Samsun”
- Swedish: “Samsun”
- Tajik: “Самсун”
- Talysh: “Samsun”
- Tamil: “சாம்சன்”
- Tatar: “Самсун”
- Telugu: “సామ్సన్”
- Thai: “ซัมซุน”
- Turkish: “Samsun”
- Tuvinian: “Самсун”
- 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”
- “Samsun”
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