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Sinop

central district and city in Sinop Province, Turkey
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Summary

Sinop is a city[1]. Sinop ranks in the top 7% of city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,087 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Sinop Province[3]
  • Country: Turkey[4], Sinope[5]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Black Sea[6]
  • Head of government: Ali Tuğrul Yıldız[7]
  • Instance of: big city[8], district of Turkey[9], municipality[10]
  • Official language: Turkish[11]
  • Twinned administrative body: Mosjøen[12]
  • Postal code: 57000[13]
  • Commons category: Sinop, Turkey[14]
  • Licence plate code: 57[15]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+03:00[16], time in Turkey[17]
  • Located in/on physical feature: Black Sea Region[18]
  • Significant event: Siege of Sinope[19]
  • Official website: http://www.sinop.bel.tr/[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sinop, Turkey[21]
  • Population: 57,399[22], 218,408[23], 57,404[24], 70,311[25]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[27], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[28], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[29], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[30], New International Encyclopedia[31]
  • Replaces: Sinope[32]
  • Capital of: Sinop Province[33], Beylik of Sinop[34]
  • Official name: Sinop[35]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Sinop[36]
  • Category for people who died here: Q32400093[37]
  • Demonym: sinopesi[38]
  • Native label: Sinop[39]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Sinop, Turkey[40]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Sinop include sinopia[41], a color[42] and Sinop Airport[43], an airport[44], in Turkey[45].

Why It Matters

Sinop has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] Sinop is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

Entities named for Sinop include sinopia[41], a color[42] and Sinop Airport[43], an airport[44], in Turkey[45].

Related Entities

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References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . sinop.gov.tr. sinop.gov.tr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . statoids.com. statoids.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [6] ↑ . The Cambridge History of Turkey. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . nufusune.com. nufusune.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . biruni.tuik.gov.tr. biruni.tuik.gov.tr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . biruni.tuik.gov.tr. biruni.tuik.gov.tr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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