Ordu Province
Location of Ordu Province in Turkey
Overview
Region:	Black Sea Region, Turkey
Area:	6,001 (km²)
Total Population	890,781 TUIK 2007 (est)
Licence plate code:	52
Area code:	0452
Governor Website	http://www.ordu.gov.tr
Weather forecast	turkeyforecast.com/weather/ordu

Ordu is a province of Turkey, located on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Samsun to the northwest, Tokat to the southwest, Sivas to the south, and Giresun to the east. It's traffic code is 52.The capital of the province is the city of Ordu.

A typical Ordu farm house

Etymology

"Ordu" means 'army' in the Turkish language (and the word has come down in modern English as the word horde). However the etymology of this Turkish province is not related to this word, it is an adaptation of Cotyora, the earlier Greek language place name.

Geography

Ordu is a strip of Black Sea coast and the hills behind, historically an agricultural and fishing area and in recent years, tourism has seen an increase, mainly visitors from Russia and Georgia, as Ordu boasts some of the best beaches, rivers, and lush, green mountains on the Black Sea coast. Walking in the high pastures is now a popular excusrion for Turkish holidaymakers.

Ordu is famous for hazelnuts. Turkey as a whole produces about 70 percent of the world's hazelnuts, and over 50 percent of those come from Ordu.^[1] The recent drop in hazelnut prices however have led farmers to supplement their income with honeybees. The higher altitudes are covered in forest.

Raising bees among hazelnut trees

The province is home to a minority of Cheveneburi Georgians^[2].

In recent decades many people from Ordu have migrated away to jobs in Istanbul or abroad.

Districts

Ordu province is divided into 19 districts (capital district in bold):

Places to see

Ordu has an attractive coast including pretty bays and the cleanest and longest beaches on this stretch of the Black Sea coast. Specific sites include:

• The Russian bazaar in the city of Ordu
• Boztepe - a 460 m hill above the city.
• Karagöl - a crater lake at 3107 m, above the plateau of Çambaşı
• Yason (Jason) point - a headland in Perşembe
• Çambaşı Yaylası a high plateau

Well-known residents

• Fikri Sönmez - left-wing mayor of Fatsa in the period leading up to the 1980 Turkish coup d'état

References

External links

• (Turkish) The provincial governorate
• www.wer52.de
• (Turkish) Ordum.Com local information

v • d • e Ordu Province (in the Black Sea region) of Turkey Urban districts Ordu Rural districts Akkuş - Aybastı - Çamaş - Çatalpınar - Çaybaşı - Fatsa - Gölköy - Gülyalı - Gürgentepe - İkizce - Kabadüz - Kabataş - Korgan - Kumru - Mesudiye - Perşembe - Ulubey - Ünye Regions Provinces Aegean Afyonkarahisar - Aydın - Denizli - İzmir - Kütahya - Manisa - Muğla - Uşak Black Sea Amasya - Artvin - Bartın - Bayburt - Bolu - Çorum - Düzce - Giresun - Gümüşhane - Karabük - Kastamonu - Ordu - Rize - Samsun - Sinop - Tokat - Trabzon - Zonguldak Central Anatolia Aksaray - Ankara - Çankırı - Eskişehir - Karaman - Kayseri - Kırıkkale - Kırşehir - Konya - Nevşehir - Niğde - Sivas - Yozgat Eastern Anatolia Ağrı - Ardahan -Bingöl - Bitlis - Elazığ - Erzincan - Erzurum - Hakkâri - Iğdır - Kars - Malatya - Muş - Siirt - Tunceli - Van Marmara Balıkesir - Bilecik - Bursa - Çanakkale - Edirne - Istanbul - Kırklareli - Kocaeli - Sakarya - Tekirdağ - Yalova Mediterranean Adana - Antalya- Burdur - Hatay - Isparta - Kahramanmaraş - Mersin - Osmaniye Southeastern Anatolia Adıyaman - Batman - Diyarbakır - Gaziantep - Kilis - Mardin - Şanlıurfa - Şırnak

Coordinates: 40°48′41″N 37°32′26″E / 40.81139, 37.54056