In this study, the aim was to determine topographic (elevation, slope, and aspect) and some physical (Great Soil Groups (GSG) and Land Use Capability Classes (LUCC) characteristics of the land in Artvin and to reveal relations between these characteristics and land cover of the city that lies along the northeast border of Turkey and due to its natural resources, consists of several protected areas as well as many development projects -both planned and ongoing. Within this scope, areal and percentile distributions in respect to slope, aspect, elevation, GSG, LUCC and land cover were determined for eight towns of Artvin using digitized 1/25000 topographic and soil maps along with CORINE 2006 land cover map with the help of Geographical Information System (GIS). Then, distributions of chosen land use types (forest, agriculture, grassland/meadow) were investigated according to the determined-ranges for the parameters of slope, aspect, elevation, GSG, and LUCC. The results showed that about 48.22% of Artvin's whole land is between an elevation ranges of 1000 - 2000 m while 31.07% of the land lies above 2000 m. Moreover, average elevation of all the towns, except for Hopa, is over the country's mean elevation of 1132 m and 81.25% of the city's land consists of more than 30% slope, meaning that topography of the land in Artvin has a high elevation and rugged terrain. In addition, it was also determined that, in general, brown forest soil (M) is the dominant soil group with a rate of 49.65% and 62.94% of whole area in Artvin is characterized as land capability class of VII. The data acquired with this study can be used on creating land use plans for all the towns and on determining misuse of lands in Artvin. In addition, these data can also be helpful in fulfilling a need of statistical and inventorial information for both scientific research and development projects planned in Artvin.