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, İzmit, which is thus also sometimes called Kocaeli.
  • Type: City with 2,080,000 residents
  • Description: province in northwestern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Îzmît”, “İzmit”, “Jimbo la Kocaeli”, “Kocaeli”, “Kocaeli (provincia)”, “Kocaeli Vilâyeti”, “Kodžaeli province”, “Kodžaelio provincija”, “Koĝaeli”, “Província de Cocaeli”, “Província de Cojaéli”, “Qucaile”, “tỉnh Kocaeli”, “TR-41”, “TR421”, “TU41”, “Επαρχία Κοτζαελί”, “Επαρχία Κοτσαελί”, “Επαρχία Κοτσαέλι”, “Вилајет Кочаели”, “ქოჯაელი”, “استان قوجا ایلی”, “استان قوجاالی”, “قوجائەلى ۋىلايىتى”, “قُوجَالَة”, “कोकाली प्रांत”, “কোকায়েলি প্রদেশ”, “கொகேயிலி மாகாணம்”, “కోసేలీ రాష్ట్రభాగం”, “కోసేలీ రాష్ట్రభాగము”, “ಕೊಕೇಲಿ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”, “කෝචලි පළාත”, and “โคเจลี”

Places of Interest

Highlights: USS Eversole and SEKA Paper Museum.

Museum
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was a Gearing-class destroyer of the…

Mosque
The Pertev Mehmet Paşa Mosque, also known as Yeni Cuma…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Izmit and Kartepe.

İzmit is an industrial city in the …

Town
is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, .

Town
Photo: Ceng573, Public domain.
, formerly known as Astacus, is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, .

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
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Kocaeli Province” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Koxhaeli”
  • Amharic: “ኮካዬሊ”
  • Arabic: “قوجه إيلي”
  • Arabic: “ولاية قوجالة”
  • Armenian: “Քոջայելիի մարզ”
  • Asturian: “provincia de Kocaeli”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kocaeli ili”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡожаэли”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡужаиле”
  • Basque: “Kocaeli probintzia”
  • Basque: “Kocaeli”
  • Belarusian: “Каджаэлі”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Каджаэлі”
  • Bengali: “কোকাইলি প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “কোজায়েলি প্রদেশ”
  • Bosnian: “Kocaeli”
  • Breton: “Kocaeli”
  • Bulgarian: “Коджаели”
  • Catalan: “Kocaeli”
  • Catalan: “Província de Kocaeli”
  • Cebuano: “Kocaeli”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای کۆجائێلی”
  • Chinese: “科賈埃利省”
  • Chinese: “科贾埃利省”
  • Chuvash: “Коджаэли”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kocaeli”
  • Czech: “Kocaeli”
  • Czech: “Kocaeliská provincie”
  • Danish: “Kocaeli Provins”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kocaeli”
  • Dutch: “Kocaeli”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Kocaeli”
  • Estonian: “Kocaeli provints”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kocaeli Praant”
  • Finnish: “Kocaelin maakunta”
  • Finnish: “Kocaelin”
  • French: “Kocaeli”
  • Gagauz: “Kocaeli”
  • Georgian: “ქოჯაელის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Kocaeli”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Κοτζάελι”
  • Greek: “Κοτζάελι”
  • Gujarati: “કોકેલી પ્રાંત”
  • Hausa: “Kocaeli”
  • Hebrew: “קוג’אלי”
  • Hebrew: “קוג’לי”
  • Hindi: “कोकाएली”
  • Hungarian: “Kocaeli”
  • Ido: “Provinco Kocaeli”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Kocaeli”
  • Irish: “Kocaeli”
  • Italian: “Kocaeli”
  • Italian: “provincia di Kocaeli”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Kocaeli”
  • Japanese: “コジャエリ県”
  • Javanese: “Kocaeli”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಕೇಲಿ ಪ್ರಾ೦ತ್ಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Қоджаели”
  • Kazakh: “Қожаелі”
  • Kirghiz: “Кожо-Эли”
  • Kirghiz: “Кочаели”
  • Korean: “코자엘리주”
  • Kurdish: “Kocaeli”
  • Kurdish: “کۆجاەل”
  • Latin: “Kocaeli”
  • Latvian: “Kodžaeli ils”
  • Lithuanian: “Kodžaelis”
  • Macedonian: “Коџаели”
  • 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: “Kocaeli”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Kocaeli”
  • Norwegian: “Kocaeli”
  • Oromo: “Kocaeli”
  • Ossetian: “Коджаели”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਸਾਏਲੀ”
  • Persian: “استان قوجاایلی”
  • Polish: “Kocaeli”
  • Portuguese: “Cocaeli”
  • Portuguese: “Cojaéli”
  • Portuguese: “Kocaeli”
  • Pushto: “کوچایلی”
  • Romanian: “Kocaeli”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Kocaeli”
  • Russian: “Коджаэли”
  • Scots: “Kocaeli Province”
  • Serbian: “Kodžaeli”
  • Serbian: “Коџаели”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kocaeli”
  • Sinhala: “කොකාඑලි පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “Kocaeli”
  • Somali: “Kocaeli”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوجاائلی اوستانی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوجاائلی”
  • Spanish: “Kocaeli”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kocaeli”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kocaeli”
  • Swedish: “Kocaeli”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Kocaeli”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Koçaeli”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Каҷоелӣ”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Коҷаели”
  • Tamil: “கோகேலி மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “கோச்சேலி மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Кочаали”
  • Tatar: “Куҗаиле”
  • Telugu: “కోసేలీ ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Thai: “โคไซเอลี”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโคจาเอลี”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโคเจลี”
  • Turkish: “Kocaeli İli”
  • Turkish: “Kocaeli”
  • Turkmen: “Kojaeli”
  • Uighur: “كوجائەلى ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Коджаелі”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ قوجا ایلی”
  • Urdu: “قوجائلی صوبہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kocaeli”
  • Vietnamese: “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 ili”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Anıtpark and Adliye.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Teknopark Playstation Cafe and Kocaeli Üniversitesi Anıtpark Kampüsü.

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