Canik is a municipality and district of Samsun Province, Turkey.Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023. Its area is 264 km2, and its population is 100,641 (2022). It is located to the east of the city center of Samsun.
Canik means land of Tzan/Can Laz people and became one of the four town municipalities under the patronage of Samsun Metropolitan Municipality in 1994. The region was largely settled by middle and lower working-class people in those days, but recent years made a big impact in the local economy. In 2008 the district Canik was created from part of the former central district of Samsun, along with İlkadım and Atakum.Kanun No. 5747, Resmî Gazete, 22 March 2008. At the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, the rural part of the district was integrated into the municipality, the villages becoming neighbourhoods.
Geography It is located on the north, Black Sea coast of Turkey.
Composition There are 52 neighbourhoods in Canik District:Mahalle , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
200 Evler Adatepe Alibeyli Ambarpınar Atatürk Avluca Başalan Başkonak Belediye Evleri Çağlayan Çamalan Demirci Dereler Devgeriş Düvecik Düzardıç Düzeren Gaziosmanpaşa Gecehan Gödekli Gökçepınar Gölalan Gültepe Gürgenyatak Hacı Ismail Hacınaipli Hasköy Hilaltepe İmamlar Kaleboğazı Karşıyaka Kaşyayla Kestanepınar Kızıloğlak Kozlu Kuzey Yıldızı Muratlı Sarıbıyık Soğuksu Tekkiraz Teknepınar Toptepe Toygar Tuzaklı Üçpınar Uluçayır Uludağ Yavuzselim Yayla Yeniköy Yenimahalle Yeşilpınar
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