Samsun Province (original) (raw)

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Province of Turkey

This article is about the province. For the city, see Samsun.

Province and metropolitan municipality in Turkey

Samsun Province Samsun ili
Province and metropolitan municipality
Location of the province within TurkeyLocation of the province within Turkey
Coordinates: 41°12′16″N 36°00′26″E / 41.20444°N 36.00722°E / 41.20444; 36.00722
Country Turkey
Seat Samsun
Government
• Mayor Halit Doğan (AKP)
• Vali Orhan Tavlı
Area 9,725 km2 (3,755 sq mi)
Population (2022)[1] 1,368,488
• Density 140.7/km2 (364.5/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+3 (TRT)
Area code 0362
ISO Code TR-55
Website www.samsun.bel.trwww.samsun.gov.tr

Samsun Province (Turkish: Samsun ili) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its area is 9,725 km2,[2] and its population is 1,368,488 (2022).[1] Its adjacent provinces are Sinop on the northwest, Çorum on the west, Amasya on the south, Tokat on the southeast on the east. Its traffic code is 55. The provincial capital is Samsun, one of the most populated cities in Turkey.

Surgical instruments are manufactured in the province today and were 4000 years ago.[3] The founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, started the Turkish War of Independence there on 19 May 1919.

Ladik Lake, Akgöl, Dumanlı lake, Semenlik lake.

Kızılırmak, Yeşilırmak, Terme river, Aptal Suyu, Mert Irmağı, Kürtün Suyu.[4]

There are also small areas of bottomland forest.[5]

Clickable Samsun administrative imagemap

Districts of Samsun (clickable map)

Samsun province is divided into 17 districts, four of which were included in the pre-2013 municipality of Samsun city (shown in boldface letters).

There is a local plan for climate change, but it says nothing about coal[6] although the province imports both coal and gas from Russia.[7]

  1. ^ a b "Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports" (XLS). TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  2. ^ "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Obsidian used as ancient scalpel found in Turkey's Samsun".
  4. ^ Samsun Archived 20 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Efe, Asuman; Alptekin, Ünal (1989). "ÖNEMLİ BİR SUBASAR ORMANI:HACIOSMAN (AN IMPORTANT BOTTOMLAND FOREST IN TURKEY)". forestist.org. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  6. ^ "SAMSUN YEREL İKLİM DEĞİŞİKLİĞİNE UYUM STRATEJİSİ VE EYLEM PLANI (2025-2030)" (PDF).
  7. ^ "The Kremlin Playbook in Türkiye" (PDF).