Gebze

Gebze is a city in , 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.
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  • Type: Town with 281,000 residents
  • Description: district and town of Kocaeli Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Dakibyza”, “Dschebize”, “Dschebse”, “Gavize”, “Gebize”, “Gebze (distritu)”, “Gekbuze”, “Ghviza”, “Guebze”, “Libisa”, “كَبْزَة”, and “ككبوزة”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Çoban Mustafa Paşa Mosque and Gebze railway station.

Mosque
Photo: aachim3, CC BY 3.0.

Railway station
Photo: Kurmanbek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gebze station is a station on the Istanbul-Ankara railway in Gebze, .

Memorial
Photo: Yamen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Güzeller and Kirazpınar.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Gebze, , .

Suburb
is a neighborhood in the district of Gebze, in the province of , . is situated 3½ km northeast of Gebze.

Village
Photo: Tansugunal, Public domain.
is a village.

Gebze

Latitude
40.8007° or 40° 48′ 2″ north
Longitude
29.4318° or 29° 25′ 54″ east
Population
281,000
Elevation
182 metres (597 feet)
UN/LOCODE
TR GEB
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
node 26505108
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
747014
Wiki­data ID
Q206116
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Gebze” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جيبزى”
  • Arabic: “كبزة”
  • Armenian: “Գեբզե”
  • Asturian: “Gebze”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gəbzə”
  • Bashkir: “Гәбзә”
  • Belarusian: “Гебзе”
  • Belarusian: “Гебзэ”
  • Breton: “Gebze”
  • Bulgarian: “Гебзе”
  • Catalan: “Gebze”
  • Cebuano: “Gebze”
  • Central Kurdish: “گەبزە”
  • Chechen: “Гебзе”
  • Chinese: “盖布泽”
  • Chinese: “蓋布澤”
  • Czech: “Gebze”
  • Danish: “Gebze”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gebze”
  • Dutch: “Gebze”
  • Esperanto: “Gebze”
  • Faroese: “Gebze”
  • French: “Gebze”
  • Gagauz: “Gebze”
  • Galician: “Gebze”
  • Georgian: “გებზე”
  • German: “Gebze”
  • Gilaki: “گبزه”
  • Greek: “Γκέμπτζε”
  • Greek: “Λίβυσσα”
  • Hebrew: “גבזה”
  • Hungarian: “Gebze”
  • Irish: “Gebze”
  • Italian: “Gebze”
  • Japanese: “ゲブゼ”
  • Korean: “게브제”
  • Kurdish: “Gebze”
  • Latin: “Libyssa”
  • Lithuanian: “Gebzė”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gebze”
  • Malay: “Gebze”
  • Mazanderani: “گبزه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gebze”
  • Minangkabau: “Gebze”
  • Moksha: “Гэбзэ”
  • Northern Luri: “گبزه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gebze”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gebze”
  • Norwegian: “Gebze”
  • Ossetian: “Гебзе”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “ککبوزه”
  • Persian: “گبزه”
  • Polish: “Gebze”
  • Portuguese: “Gebze”
  • Romanian: “Gebze”
  • Russian: “Гебзе”
  • Scots: “Gebze”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gebze”
  • Serbian: “Gebze”
  • Serbian: “Гебзе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gebze”
  • Slovenian: “Gebze”
  • Somali: “Gebze”
  • South Azerbaijani: “گبزه”
  • Spanish: “Gebze”
  • Swahili: “Gebze”
  • Swedish: “Gebze”
  • Tajik: “Гебзе”
  • Tatar: “Гебзе”
  • Thai: “เกบเซ”
  • Turkish: “Gebze”
  • Uighur: “گەبزە”
  • Ukrainian: “Гебзе”
  • Urdu: “گیبزے”
  • Vietnamese: “Gebze”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gebze”
  • Western Mari: “Гебзе”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع گیبزے”

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