Darıca
Darıca is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. The town was previously known as Aretsou by its native Greek population. Its area is 23 km2, and its population is 225,602. The current mayor is Muzaffer Bıyık.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 201,000 residents
- Description: ilçe (district), administrative county of Kocaeli, northwestern Turkey
- Also known as: “Darıca district”, “Deridja”, and “Derija”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gebze railway station and Darıca railway station.
Gebze railway station
Railway station
Photo: Kurmanbek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gebze station is a station on the Istanbul-Ankara railway in Gebze, Turkey. It is located between Plevne and Etem Paşa Avenues just southwest of Gebze's city center. Gebze railway station is situated 3½ km northeast of Darıca.
Darıca railway station
Railway station
Photo: Theetc, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darıca station is a station on the Marmaray commuter rail in Darıca, Turkey. It is a new station that has been added to the railway with the Marmaray project. Darıca railway station is situated 4 km north of Darıca.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eskihisar and Gebze.
Eskihisar
Village
Photo: Tansugunal, Public domain.
Eskihisar is a village, which is situated 4 km northeast of Darıca.
Gebze
Photo: William Neuheisel, CC BY 2.0.
Gebze is a city in Eastern Marmara, 65 km east of Istanbul. It's a sprawling industrial conurbation, with a population of 392,945 in 2020. Traditionally you came here to take the ferry from Eskihisar across the Gulf of Izmit towards Yalova and Bursa.
Güzeller
Suburb
Güzeller is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Gebze, Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Güzeller is situated 7 km northeast of Darıca.
Darıca
- Categories: district of Turkey and locality
- Location: Darıca, Kocaeli Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
40.75748° or 40° 45′ 27″ northLongitude
29.38406° or 29° 23′ 3″ eastPopulation
201,000Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)United Nations Location Code
TR DAROpen location code
8GGFQ94M+XJOpenStreetMap ID
node 251382196OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Darıca” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دارجة”
- Arabic: “دَارِجَة”
- Arabic: “داريجة”
- Arabic: “دريكا”
- Asturian: “Darıca (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Darıca”
- Azerbaijani: “Darıca”
- Belarusian: “Дарыджа”
- Catalan: “Darıca”
- Cebuano: “Darıca”
- Chechen: “Дариджа”
- Chinese: “Darıca”
- Chinese: “达勒贾”
- Chinese: “達勒賈”
- Dimli (individual language): “Darıca”
- Dutch: “Darica”
- Dutch: “Darıca”
- Esperanto: “Darıca”
- French: “Darıca”
- Gagauz: “Darıca”
- German: “Darıca”
- Gilaki: “داريجا”
- Greek: “Αρετζού”
- Greek: “Αρετσού”
- Greek: “Αριτζού”
- Greek: “Δάριτζα”
- Greek: “Ρίτζιον”
- Greek: “Ρύσιο”
- Greek: “Ρύσιον”
- Irish: “Darıca”
- Italian: “Darıca”
- Japanese: “ダリジャ”
- Malay: “Darıca”
- Mazanderani: “داریجا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Darıca”
- Minangkabau: “Darıca”
- Northern Luri: “داریجا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Darıca”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Darica”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Darıca”
- Norwegian: “Darıca”
- Persian: “داریجا”
- Persian: “داریجه”
- Polish: “Darıca”
- Romanian: “Darıca”
- Russian: “Дарыджа”
- Serbian: “Daridža”
- Serbian: “Darıca”
- Serbian: “Дарица”
- Serbian: “Дариџа”
- South Azerbaijani: “داریجا”
- Swedish: “Darica”
- Tatar: “Дарыҗа (Дариҗа)”
- Tatar: “Дарыҗа”
- Turkish: “Darıca”
- Urdu: “داریجا”
- Urdu: “داریجہ”
- Vietnamese: “Darıca”
- Western Mari: “Дарыджа”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع داریچا”
- “Darıca ilçesi”
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