Çanakçı is a town and a district of Giresun Province in the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Rom ...

region of

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. Çanakçı is a small town of 1,848 people in a district of forest and scattered villages inland from the

coastal town of Görele. It was founded as a village of Görele. Çanakçı became a town in 1991. Famous "Kuşdili" festival is held in Çanakçı every July. Hundreds of people from nearby places attend this festival. The

Kemenche Kemenche ( tr, kemençe) or Lyra is a name used for various types of stringed bowed musical instruments originating in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly in Armenia, Greece, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. and regions adjacent to the Black S ...

, which is one of the traditional Eastern Black Sea instruments, is played in Çanakçı. One of the most important folk songs is "Çanakçı'dan aşağı".

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Populated places in Giresun Province Districts of Giresun Province Towns in Turkey {{Giresun-geo-stub