Körfez
Körfez, formerly known as Elaia, or Elaea, is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Its area is 301 km2, and its population is 178,048.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 90,600 residents
- Description: district and town of the Kocaeli Province in Turkey
- Also known as: “Koerfez”, “Körfez District”, “Yaremdji”, and “Yarımca”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Körfez Circuit.
Körfez Circuit
İzmit Körfez Circuit is a motor sports race track about 17 km west of İzmit, in Körfez district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Sponsored by the Turkish Automobile Sports Federation and built by the Istanbul Motorsports Club, it was inaugurated in 1993 as the first asphalted race track in Turkey.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Derince and Gölcük.
Derince
Town
Photo: Rasitkeskin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Derince is a seaport, municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Its area is 198 km2, and its population is 146,374. The mayor is Zeki Aygün. Derince is situated 4 km east of Körfez.
Gölcük
Town
Photo: Serdar Timur, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gölcük, historically known as Diolkides, is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Its area is 217 km2, and its population is 175,940. Gölcük is situated 6 km southeast of Körfez.
Değirmendere
Quarter
Photo: Serdar Timur, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Değirmendere is a quarter, which is situated 4½ km south of Körfez.
Körfez
- Categories: city, big city, and locality
- Location: Körfez İlçesi, Kocaeli Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
40.7608° or 40° 45′ 39″ northLongitude
29.7839° or 29° 47′ 2″ eastPopulation
90,600Elevation
57 metres (187 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 251435023OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Körfez” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كرفز”
- Arabic: “كُرْفَزُ”
- Arabic: “كورفيز”
- Asturian: “Körfez (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Körfez”
- Belarusian: “Кёрфез”
- Belarusian: “Кёрфэз”
- Catalan: “Korfez”
- Catalan: “Körfez”
- Cebuano: “Körfez”
- Chechen: “Коьрфез”
- Chinese: “Körfez”
- Chinese: “克尔费兹”
- Chinese: “克爾費茲”
- Dimli (individual language): “Körfez”
- Dutch: “Korfez”
- Dutch: “Körfez”
- Esperanto: “Körfez”
- French: “Körfez”
- Gagauz: “Körfez”
- German: “Körfez”
- Gilaki: “کؤرفز”
- Greek: “Κιόρφεζ”
- Hungarian: “Körfez”
- Irish: “Körfez”
- Italian: “Körfez”
- Lithuanian: “Kiorfezas”
- Malay: “Körfez, Kocaeli”
- Malay: “Körfez”
- Mazanderani: “کورفز”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Körfez”
- Minangkabau: “Körfez”
- Northern Luri: “کورفز”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Körfez”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Körfez i Kocaeli”
- Norwegian: “Körfez”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Körfez”
- Persian: “کورفز”
- Polish: “Körfez”
- Romanian: “Körfez”
- Russian: “Кёрфез”
- Serbian: “Корфез”
- South Azerbaijani: “کؤرفز، قوجاائلی”
- South Azerbaijani: “کورفز”
- Swahili: “Körfez (District)”
- Swahili: “Körfez, Kocaeli”
- Swedish: “Körfez”
- Tatar: “Көрфез (Көрфез)”
- Tatar: “Көрфез”
- Turkish: “Körfez, Kocaeli”
- Turkish: “Körfez”
- Ukrainian: “Кьорфез”
- Urdu: “کورفیز، قوجائلی”
- Vietnamese: “Körfez, Kocaeli”
- Vietnamese: “Körfez”
- Western Mari: “Кӧрфез”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع کورفیز”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Körfez Center AVM and Sarnıçhan.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Körfez”. Photo: Abdullah kıyga, CC BY 3.0.