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İzmir Province

Izmir

İzmir is a port on the coast of Turkey, known in antiquity as Smyrna. It's the country's third-largest city, with a population of 3.12 million in 2024.
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  • Type: City with 4,490,000 residents
  • Description: city in İzmir Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Azmir”, “Ismir”, “İzmir”, and “Yazmir”
  • Historically known as: “Smirne”, “Smyrna”, and “Smyrne”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Asansör and Konak Square.

Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a historical building in İzmir's Karataş quarter, within the boundaries of the metropolitan district of Konak. It was built in 1907 as a work of public service by a wealthy Jewish banker and trader of that period, Nesim Levi Bayraklıoğlu, in order…

Square
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is a busy square at the southern end of Atatürk Avenue in the district of İzmir, . The square is named after the Vali Konağı of , which is located here…

Castle
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is a hilltop castle in İzmir, . The castle is located on the Mount Pagos which has an elevation of 186 metres. It was built in the 3rd century BC.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karabağlar and Konak.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 89 km2, and its population is 479,338. It is the second biggest district of İzmir Province as terms of population.

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 24 km2, and its population is 332,277. It is the most densely populated of the thirty districts of İzmir, and has historically acted as the administrative and economic core of the city.

Quarter
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is a historical market district of İzmir, Turkey. It remains one of the liveliest districts of İzmir.

Izmir

Latitude
38.4193° or 38° 25′ 9″ north
Longitude
27.1285° or 27° 7′ 43″ east
Population
4,490,000
Elevation
122 metres (400 feet)
IATA airport code
IZM
United Nations Location Code
TR IZM
Open location code
8GC9C49H+P9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 428039507
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
311046
Wiki­data ID
Q35997
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Zeeuws—“Izmir” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Измир”
  • Afrikaans: “Izmir”
  • Afrikaans: “Smyrna”
  • Albanian: “Izmiri”
  • Albanian: “Smirnë”
  • Amharic: “ኢዝሚር”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σμύρνᾱ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σμύρνη”
  • Arabic: “أزمير”
  • Arabic: “إزمير”
  • Arabic: “ازمير”
  • Armenian: “Զմյուռնիա”
  • Armenian: “Իզմիր”
  • Armenian: “Սմիրնա”
  • Asturian: “Esmirna”
  • Avaric: “Измир”
  • Azerbaijani: “İzmir”
  • Balinese: “İzmir”
  • Bambara: “İzmir”
  • Bashkir: “Измир”
  • Basque: “Esmirna”
  • Basque: “Izmir”
  • Belarusian: “Ізмір”
  • Belarusian: “Ізьмір”
  • Belarusian: “Смірна”
  • Bengali: “ইজমির”
  • Bosnian: “Izmir”
  • Bosnian: “İzmir”
  • Breton: “İzmir”
  • Breton: “Smirn”
  • Bulgarian: “Измир”
  • Catalan: “Esmirna”
  • Catalan: “Izmir”
  • Catalan: “İzmir”
  • Cebuano: “İzmir”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیزمیر”
  • Chechen: “Измир”
  • Chinese: “Izmir”
  • Chinese: “伊兹密尔”
  • Chinese: “伊士麥”
  • Chinese: “伊茲密爾”
  • Chinese: “伊茲米爾”
  • Chinese: “伊茲美爾”
  • Chinese: “伊茲麥”
  • Chinese: “士每拿”
  • Chinese: “士麦拿”
  • Chinese: “士麦那”
  • Chinese: “示每拿”
  • Chuvash: “Измир”
  • Croatian: “Izmir”
  • Croatian: “İzmir”
  • Croatian: “Smirna”
  • Czech: “Izmir”
  • Czech: “İzmir”
  • Czech: “Smyrna”
  • Danish: “Izmir”
  • Danish: “Smyrna”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İzmir”
  • Dutch: “Izmir”
  • Dutch: “İzmir”
  • Dutch: “Smyma”
  • Eastern Mari: “Измир”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ازمير”
  • Erzya: “Измир”
  • Esperanto: “Izmir”
  • Esperanto: “Izmiro”
  • Esperanto: “Smirna”
  • Esperanto: “Smirno”
  • Estonian: “İzmir”
  • Estonian: “Smürna”
  • Faroese: “Izmir”
  • Finnish: “Izmir”
  • Finnish: “İzmir”
  • Finnish: “Smyrna”
  • French: “Izmir”
  • French: “İzmir”
  • French: “Smyrne”
  • Galician: “Esmirna”
  • Georgian: “იზმირი”
  • Georgian: “სმირნა”
  • German: “Izmir”
  • German: “Smyrni”
  • Gilaki: “ايزمير”
  • Greek: “Ιζμίρ”
  • Greek: “Ίζμιρ”
  • Greek: “Σμύρνη”
  • Gujarati: “ઈઝમિર”
  • Hausa: “Izmir”
  • Hebrew: “איזמיר”
  • Hebrew: “סמירנה”
  • Hindi: “इज़मिर”
  • Hungarian: “İzmir”
  • Hungarian: “Szmirna”
  • Hungarian: “Szmürna”
  • Iban: “İzmir”
  • Icelandic: “Izmir”
  • Icelandic: “İzmir”
  • Icelandic: “Smyrna”
  • Ido: “İzmir”
  • Indonesian: “Izmir”
  • Indonesian: “İzmir”
  • Interlingua: “Izmir”
  • Interlingue: “Izmir”
  • Irish: “İzmir”
  • Italian: “Izmir”
  • Italian: “Smirne”
  • Japanese: “イズミール”
  • Japanese: “イズミル”
  • Japanese: “スミュルナ”
  • Japanese: “スミルナ”
  • Javanese: “Izmir”
  • Javanese: “İzmir”
  • Kabyle: “Izmir”
  • Kalaallisut: “Izmir”
  • Kannada: “ಇಜ್ಮಿರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಈಝ್ನೀರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Izmir”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “İzmir”
  • Kazakh: “Измир”
  • Kikuyu: “İzmir”
  • Kinyarwanda: “İzmir”
  • Kirghiz: “Измир”
  • Korean: “스미르나”
  • Korean: “이즈미르”
  • Kurdish: “Izmir”
  • Kurdish: “Izmîr”
  • Kurdish: “Îzmîr”
  • Kurdish: “Simîrna”
  • Kurdish: “Smyrna”
  • Ladino: “Ezmirna”
  • Ladino: “Izmir”
  • Ladino: “Smirna”
  • Latin: “Smyrna”
  • Latvian: “Izmir”
  • Latvian: “Izmira”
  • Latvian: “Smirna”
  • Limburgan: “Izmir”
  • Limburgan: “İzmir”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Izmir”
  • Lithuanian: “İzmir”
  • Lithuanian: “Izmiras”
  • Lithuanian: “Izmyras”
  • Lithuanian: “Smirna”
  • Low German: “Izmir”
  • Luxembourgish: “Izmir”
  • Luxembourgish: “Smyrna”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “İzmir”
  • Macedonian: “Измир”
  • Malagasy: “Izmir”
  • Malay: “İzmir”
  • Malayalam: “ഇസ്മിർ, തുർക്കി”
  • Maltese: “Izmir”
  • Maltese: “Iżmir”
  • Maltese: “İzmir”
  • Marathi: “इझ्मिर”
  • Mazanderani: “ازمیر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Izmir”
  • Minangkabau: “İzmir”
  • Mingrelian: “იზმირი”
  • Moksha: “Измир”
  • Mongolian: “Измир”
  • Nauru: “İzmir”
  • Nepali: “इज्मिर”
  • Northern Frisian: “İzmir (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “İzmir”
  • Northern Luri: “ازمیر”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Izmir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “İzmir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Smyrna”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “İzmir”
  • Norwegian: “Izmir”
  • Novial: “Izmir”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Esmirna”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Smyrna”
  • Ossetian: “Измир”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਜ਼ਮਿਰ”
  • Persian: “ازمیر”
  • Persian: “اسمیرنا”
  • Persian: “ایزمیر”
  • Polish: “Izmir”
  • Polish: “İzmira”
  • Portuguese: “Esmirna”
  • Portuguese: “Izmir”
  • Portuguese: “Smirna”
  • Pushto: “ازمير”
  • Quechua: “İzmir”
  • Romanian: “İzmir”
  • Russian: “Измир”
  • Russian: “Смирна”
  • Saraiki: “ازمیر”
  • Scots: “İzmir”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “İzmir”
  • Serbian: “İzmir”
  • Serbian: “Σμύρνη”
  • Serbian: “Измир”
  • Serbian: “Смирна” (historical)
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Izmir”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “İzmir”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Smirna”
  • Silesian: “İzmir”
  • Sinhala: “ඉස්මීර්”
  • Slovak: “Izmir”
  • Slovenian: “İzmir”
  • Slovenian: “Smirna”
  • Somali: “İzmir”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ازمیر”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایزمیر”
  • Spanish: “Esmirna”
  • Spanish: “Izmir”
  • Spanish: “Smyrna”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵣⵎⵉⵔ”
  • Swahili: “İzmir”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la İzmir”
  • Swahili: “Smirna”
  • Swedish: “Esmirna”
  • Swedish: “Izmir”
  • Swedish: “Mýrrha”
  • Swedish: “Smirna”
  • Swedish: “Smirne”
  • Swedish: “Smyrna”
  • Swedish: “Smyrne”
  • Swedish: “Smýrne”
  • Swedish: “Smýrnē”
  • Swedish: “Smýrni”
  • Tagalog: “İzmir”
  • Tajik: “Измир”
  • Talysh: “Izmir”
  • Tamil: “இசுமீர்”
  • Tamil: “இஸ்மிர்”
  • Tatar: “Измир”
  • Telugu: “ఇజ్మీర్”
  • Thai: “อิซมีร์”
  • Tumbuka: “Izmir”
  • Tumbuka: “İzmir”
  • Turkish: “İzmir”
  • Turkish: “Smynra”
  • Turkmen: “Izmir”
  • Turkmen: “İzmir”
  • Twi: “Izmir”
  • Udmurt: “Измир”
  • Udmurt: “Смирна”
  • Uighur: “Izmir”
  • Uighur: “ئىزمىر”
  • Ukrainian: “Ізмір”
  • Ukrainian: “Смирна”
  • Ukrainian: “Смірна”
  • Urdu: “ازمیر”
  • Urdu: “سمرنا”
  • Uzbek: “Izmir”
  • Venetian: “Smirne”
  • Veps: “Izmir”
  • Vietnamese: “Izmir”
  • Vietnamese: “İzmir”
  • Vlax Romani: “Izmir”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Izmir”
  • Welsh: “İzmir”
  • Welsh: “Smyrna”
  • Western Armenian: “Իզմիր”
  • Western Frisian: “Izmir”
  • Western Frisian: “İzmir”
  • Western Mari: “Измир”
  • Western Panjabi: “ازمیر”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊兹密尔”
  • Yiddish: “איזמיר”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊茲密爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Izmir”
  • “İzmir”

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