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Kocaeli Province

Kocaeli Province is a province and metropolitan municipality of and one of only three not to have the same official name as its capital, , which is thus also sometimes called Kocaeli.
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  • Type: City with 2,080,000 residents
  • Description: province of Turkey
  • Also known as: “Kocaeli”, “Kocaeli Vilâyeti”, and “TR421”

Places of Interest

Highlights include USS Eversole and Pertev Pasha Mosque.

Museum
Photo: KeRR, CC BY 2.5.
was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Lieutenant John T. Eversole, a naval aviator who was killed in the Battle of Midway.

Mosque
Photo: Rime, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Pertev Mehmet Paşa Mosque, also known as Yeni Cuma Cami, is a located in the town of Izmit, in the province of Kocaeli, .

Railway station
Photo: Theetc, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Izmit station is a railway station on the Istanbul-Ankara railway and is the main station in Izmit, . The station is located on the shore of the Izmit Bay next to the D100 and at the western end of Cumhuriyet avenue.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Izmit and Kartepe.

Photo: Ahmet KAYNARPUNAR, CC BY-SA 3.0.
İzmit is an industrial city in the region of Turkey, just over 100 km east of Istanbul. It's at the tip of the sword-like Gulf of İzmit, a long inlet of the Sea of Marmara, and in 2021 had a population of 367,990.

Town
Photo: Kocaeligönüllüsü, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, . Its area is 301 km2, and its population is 136,625. The mayor is Mustafa Kocaman.

Town
Photo: Ceng573, Public domain.
, formerly known as Astacus, is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, . Its area is 23 km2, and its population is 116,650. The mayor is Hüseyin Ayaz.

Kocaeli Province

Latitude
40.7654° or 40° 45′ 55″ north
Longitude
29.9407° or 29° 56′ 27″ east
Population
2,080,000
Elevation
233 metres (764 feet)
Open location code
8GGFQW8R+57
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11212606075
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
742865
Wiki­data ID
Q83965
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Kocaeli Province” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Koxhaeli”
  • Arabic: “قُوجَالَة”
  • Arabic: “قوجه إيلي”
  • Arabic: “ولاية قوجالة”
  • Armenian: “Քոջայելիի մարզ”
  • Asturian: “Kocaeli (provincia)”
  • Asturian: “provincia de Kocaeli”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kocaeli ili”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kocaeli”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡожаэли”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡужаиле”
  • Basque: “Kocaeli probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Каджаэлі”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Каджаэлі”
  • Bengali: “কোকাইলি প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “কোকায়েলি প্রদেশ”
  • Bosnian: “Kocaeli”
  • Breton: “Kocaeli”
  • Bulgarian: “Коджаели”
  • Catalan: “Província de Kocaeli”
  • Catalan: “TR421”
  • Cebuano: “Kocaeli”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای کۆجائێلی”
  • Chinese: “Kocaeli”
  • Chinese: “科賈埃利省”
  • Chinese: “科贾埃利省”
  • Chuvash: “Коджаэли”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kocaeli”
  • Czech: “Kocaeli”
  • Czech: “Kocaeliská provincie”
  • Danish: “Kocaeli Province”
  • Danish: “Kocaeli Provins”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kocaeli”
  • Dutch: “Kocaeli”
  • Esperanto: “Kocaeli”
  • Esperanto: “Koĝaeli”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Kocaeli”
  • Estonian: “Kocaeli provints”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kocaeli Praant”
  • Finnish: “Kocaelin maakunta”
  • French: “Kocaeli”
  • Gagauz: “Kocaeli”
  • Georgian: “ქოჯაელი”
  • Georgian: “ქოჯაელის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Kocaeli”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Κοτζαελί”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Κοτζάελι”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Κοτσαελί”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Κοτσαέλι”
  • Greek: “Κοτζάελι”
  • Gujarati: “કોકેલી પ્રાંત”
  • Hebrew: “קוג’אלי”
  • Hebrew: “קוג’לי”
  • Hindi: “कोकाएली”
  • Hindi: “कोकाली प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “Kocaeli”
  • Ido: “Provinco Kocaeli”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Kocaeli”
  • Irish: “Kocaeli”
  • Italian: “provincia di Kocaeli”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Kocaeli”
  • Japanese: “コジャエリ県”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಕೇಲಿ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಕೇಲಿ ಪ್ರಾ೦ತ್ಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Қожаелі”
  • Kirghiz: “Кожо-Эли”
  • Korean: “코자엘리주”
  • Kurdish: “Îzmît”
  • Kurdish: “İzmit”
  • Kurdish: “Kocaeli”
  • Kurdish: “کۆجاەل”
  • Latin: “Kocaeli”
  • Latvian: “Kodžaeli ils”
  • Latvian: “Kodžaeli province”
  • Lithuanian: “Kodžaelio provincija”
  • Lithuanian: “Kodžaelis”
  • Macedonian: “Коџаели”
  • Malay: “Provinsi Kocaeli”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Kocaeli”
  • Marathi: “कोचेली प्रांत”
  • Mazanderani: “قوجاایلی اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kocaeli”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kocaeli (Prowins)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kocaeli”
  • Northern Luri: “آستوٙن قوٙجائیلی”
  • Northern Sami: “Kocaeli eanangoddi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kocaeli”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Kocaeli”
  • Norwegian: “Kocaeli”
  • Ossetian: “Коджаели”
  • Ossetian: “Коджаэли”
  • Persian: “استان قوجا ایلی”
  • Persian: “استان قوجاالی”
  • Persian: “استان قوجاایلی”
  • Polish: “Kocaeli”
  • Portuguese: “Cocaeli”
  • Portuguese: “Cojaéli”
  • Portuguese: “Kocaeli”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Cocaeli”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Cojaéli”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Kocaeli”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Kocaeli”
  • Russian: “Коджаели”
  • Russian: “Коджаэли”
  • Scots: “Kocaeli Province”
  • Serbian: “Kodžaeli”
  • Serbian: “Вилајет Кочаели”
  • Serbian: “Коџаели”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kocaeli”
  • Sinhala: “කොකාඑලි පළාත”
  • Sinhala: “කෝචලි පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “Kocaeli”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوجاائلی اوستانی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوجاائلی”
  • Spanish: “Kocaeli”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kocaeli”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Kocaeli”
  • Swahili: “Kocaeli”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kocaeli”
  • Swedish: “Kocaeli”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Kocaeli”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Koçaeli”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Каҷоелӣ”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Коҷаели”
  • Tamil: “கொகேயிலி மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “கோகேலி மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “கோச்சேலி மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Qucaile”
  • Tatar: “Куҗаиле”
  • Telugu: “కోసేలీ ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Telugu: “కోసేలీ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Telugu: “కోసేలీ రాష్ట్రభాగము”
  • Thai: “โคเจลี”
  • Thai: “โคไซเอลี”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโคเจลี”
  • Turkish: “Kocaeli ili”
  • Turkish: “Kocaeli İli”
  • Turkish: “Kocaeli”
  • Turkish: “TR421”
  • Turkmen: “Kojaeli”
  • Uighur: “قوجائەلى ۋىلايىتى”
  • Uighur: “كوجائەلى ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Коджаелі”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ قوجا ایلی”
  • Urdu: “قوجائلی صوبہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kocaeli”
  • Vietnamese: “Kocaeli”
  • Vietnamese: “tỉnh Kocaeli”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kocaeli”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Kocaeli”
  • Western Armenian: “Քոճաէլի”
  • Western Mari: “Коджаэли”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ کوجائلی”
  • Wu Chinese: “科贾埃利省”
  • Yue Chinese: “科賈埃利省”
  • “Kocaeli”
  • “Kocaeli ili”
  • “TR-41”
  • “TU41”

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