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# Creating an Amazon SNS Topic
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The following example creates a topic with the name from the command line, in your default region, and displays the resulting topic ARN.

```
package main

import (
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/sns"

    "fmt"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    if len(os.Args) < 2 {
        fmt.Println("You must supply a topic name")
        fmt.Println("Usage: go run SnsCreateTopic.go TOPIC")
        os.Exit(1)
    }

    // Initialize a session that the SDK will use to load
    // credentials from the shared credentials file. (~/.aws/credentials).
    sess := session.Must(session.NewSessionWithOptions(session.Options{
        SharedConfigState: session.SharedConfigEnable,
    }))

    svc := sns.New(sess)

    result, err := svc.CreateTopic(&sns.CreateTopicInput{
        Name: aws.String(os.Args[1]),
    })
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err.Error())
        os.Exit(1)
    }

    fmt.Println(*result.TopicArn)
}
```

See the [complete example](https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/blob/main/go/example_code/sns/SnsCreateTopic.go) on GitHub.