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Canik district

ilçe (district), administrative county of Samsun, northern Turkey
Place town Q2634212

Facts

15 properties
Instance of
town, district of Turkey[6]
Inception
March 22, 2008[8]
Country
Turkey[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 41.272°, 36.351°[9]
Area
+264[15]
Continent
Asia[5]
Described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11]
Different from
Canik, Canik Mountains[12][13]
Elevation above sea level
+61[14]
Located in or next to body of water
Black Sea[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Samsun Province[2]
Official language
Turkish[7]
Population
+97564[10]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 97,564 GeoNames 93,721 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Rural population
20k (20k–21k, n=4)
Urban population
99k (66k–101k, n=13)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
🏷️ Also known as
en Canik district ar جانك ar جَانِك de Canik fa جانیک it Distretto di Canik ru Джаник tr Canik Sancağı zh 雅尼克
🔖 Identifiers · 6
GND ID
1172548390
Freebase ID
/m/0h1g4r5
GeoNames ID
9549574
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
1186
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1837365
Topic's main category
Category:Canik

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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Istanbul 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · TR GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 6
Düvecik, Alibeyli, Demirci, Gölalan, Tekkiraz, Üçpınar
Instance of 2
town, district of Turkey
Located in time zone 2
UTC+03:00, time in Turkey
Continent 1
Asia
Country 1
Turkey
Described by source 1
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Different from 1
Canik Mountains
Located in or next to body of water 1
Black Sea
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Samsun Province
Located in this place 1
Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium
Official language 1
Turkish
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Samsun Province
← Different from 1
Canik Mountains
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Summary

Canik district is a town[1].

Related Entities

Turkey

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 1172548390
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56499|batch #56499]]: Import GND IDs via DNB dump"
  2. 10w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Samsun Province
    Inception → —
    Coordinate location → {'latitude': 41.27194444, 'longitude': 36.35083333}
    Described by source → Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48912|batch #48912]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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