Çorum Province
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Çorum Province | |
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Country | Turkey |
Seat | Çorum |
Government | |
• Governor | Zülkif Dağlı |
Area | 12,428 km2 (4,798 sq mi) |
Population (2022)[1] | 524,130 |
• Density | 42/km2 (110/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |
Area code | 0364 |
Website | www |
Çorum (
History
Excavations reveal that Çorum area was inhabited during the Paleolithic, Neolithic period and the 4th stage of the Calcolithic Age. Remains of these periods have been found at Büyük Güllüce, Eskiyapar and Kuşsaray.
In later times Çorum and its environs were dominated by
Later civilizations such as the
In 1980,
Geography
The province of Çorum is a mixture of mountains and high plateaus, some of it watered by the
Çorum is also known as a Geographical centre of Earth[dubious ]. In 2003, a revised calculation by Holger Isenberg using the higher resolution ETOPO2 global digital elevation model (DEM) with data points every 2' (3.7 km near equator) led to a more precise result of 40°52′N 34°34′E in the region of Çorum, Turkey (180 km northeast of Ankara) and thereby validated Woods' calculation.[citation needed]
Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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Average high °C | 4.2 | 6.5 | 11.5 | 17.4 | 21.8 | 25.6 | 28.9 | 29.1 | 25.6 | 19.5 | 12.1 | 6.0 | |
Ave. low °C | -4.3 | -3.8 | -1.1 | 3.7 | 7.0 | 9.8 | 12.1 | 12.0 | 8.7 | 4.7 | 0.3 | -2.3 | |
source: www.meteor.gov.tr Archived 2008-06-17 at the Wayback Machine |
Districts
Çorum province is divided into 14 districts (capital district in bold):
Population
Population statistical of districts | ||||||||||||||||||
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District | 1831* | 1849 | 1893 | 1907 | 1927 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2007 | ||||||
Çorum | 10.075* | 49.057 | 80.973 | 60.752 | 88.056 | 118.536 | 144.569 | 168.985 | 189.748 | 221.699 | ||||||||
Alaca | - | - | - | - | 26.787 | 46.444 | 54.315 | 56.657 | 56.724 | 53.403 | 53.193 | |||||||
Bayat | - | - | - | - | - | - | 22.836 | 27.078 | 31.957 | 36.294 | 30.574 | |||||||
Boğazkale | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9.973 | 8.190 | |||||||
Dodurga | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13.550 | 10.439 | |||||||
İskilip | 11.450* | 43.442 | 43.271 | 52.362 | 53.722 | 66.611 | 55.618 | 67.434 | 72.569 | 52.569 | 45.327 | |||||||
Kargı | - | - | - | - | - | - | 31.564 | 32.261 | 31.247 | 26.762 | 20.388 | |||||||
Laçin | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11.960 | 9.425 | |||||||
Mecitözü | - | - | 31.928 | 1907 | 36.752 | 44.319 | 34.598 | 35.496 | 34.911 | 31.246 | 26.064 | |||||||
Oğuzlar | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11.154 | 9.083 | |||||||
Ortaköy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9.580 | 11.016 | 12.420 | 13.073 | 11.820 | |||||||
Osmancık | 4.349* | 17.639 | 29.473 | 29.184 | 33.494 | 42.960 | 53.849 | 63.018 | 52.490 | 53.758 | ||||||||
Sungurlu | 67.607 | 39.793 | 40.405 | 62.429 | 76.382 | 90.006 | 100.000 | 88.327 | 80.840 | |||||||||
Uğurludağ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18.111 | 16.265 | |||||||
Total | 202.601 | 247.602 | 341.353 | 446.389 | 518.366 | 571.831 | 608.660 | 597.065 |
- The census data of 1831 is only the central city, villages and towns are not included.
- The boxes with (-) sign are the times the before the subprovince was a subprovince.
References
- ^ TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
External links
- (in Turkish) Çorum governor's official website
- (in Turkish) Çorum municipality's official website
- (in English) Çorum weather forecast information