Middle East
Turkey
Kocaeli Province

Izmit

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.
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Photo: Ahmet KAYNARPUNAR, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Town with 376,000 residents
  • Description: central district and city of Kocaeli in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Astacus”, “Ismid”, “Ismit”, “Isnimid”, “İzmit”, “Kodja-Eli”, “Koja-Ili”, “Nicomedia”, and “Nikomedeia”
Photo: Berkman, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: Kocaeligönüllüsü, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include İzmit Earthquake Memorial and Awareness Museum and Pertev Pasha Mosque.

Museum
Photo: Kocaeligönüllüsü, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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 , .

Historic building
Photo: Kocaeligönüllüsü, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a historic building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mehmet Ali Paşa and Orhan.

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

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

Suburb
Photo: Ucandairebaskani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of İzmit, , .

Izmit

Latitude
40.7721° or 40° 46′ 20″ north
Longitude
29.9506° or 29° 57′ 2″ east
Population
376,000
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR IZT
Open location code
8GGFQXC2+R6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8250973366
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
745028
Wiki­data ID
Q129649
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Izmit” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Izmit”
  • Arabic: “إزميت”
  • Arabic: “إزميد”
  • Arabic: “إِزْمِيدُ”
  • Armenian: “Իզմիթ”
  • Asturian: “İzmit (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “İzmit”
  • Azerbaijani: “İzmit”
  • Bashkir: “Измит”
  • Basque: “İzmit”
  • Belarusian: “Ізміт”
  • Belarusian: “Ізьміт”
  • Bosnian: “İzmit”
  • Breton: “İzmit”
  • Bulgarian: “Измит”
  • Catalan: “Izmid”
  • Catalan: “İzmit”
  • Cebuano: “İzmit (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “İzmit”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیزمیت”
  • Chechen: “Измит”
  • Chinese: “İzmit”
  • Chinese: “伊兹密特”
  • Chinese: “伊兹米特”
  • Chinese: “伊茲密特”
  • Chinese: “科贾埃利”
  • Croatian: “İzmit”
  • Czech: “İzmit”
  • Danish: “İzmit”
  • Danish: “Nikomedia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İzmit”
  • Dutch: “Izmit”
  • Dutch: “İzmit”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ازميد”
  • Esperanto: “İzmit”
  • Estonian: “İzmit”
  • Finnish: “İzmit”
  • French: “Ismit”
  • French: “Isnikmid”
  • French: “Izmit”
  • French: “Izmitk”
  • French: “Nicomédie”
  • Friulian: “Kocaeli”
  • Georgian: “იზმითი”
  • German: “Ismit”
  • German: “İzmit”
  • Gilaki: “ايزميت”
  • Greek: “Ιζμίτ”
  • Greek: “Νικομήδεια”
  • Hebrew: “איזמיט”
  • Hebrew: “ניקומדיה”
  • Hungarian: “Izmit”
  • Hungarian: “İzmit”
  • Icelandic: “İzmit”
  • Indonesian: “İzmit”
  • Interlingue: “İzmit”
  • Irish: “İzmit”
  • Italian: “İzmit”
  • Italian: “Nicomedia”
  • Italian: “Olbia”
  • Japanese: “İzmit”
  • Japanese: “イズミット”
  • Japanese: “イズミト”
  • Japanese: “イズミド”
  • Japanese: “ニコミディア”
  • Japanese: “ニコメディア”
  • Kazakh: “Ïzmït”
  • Kazakh: “Измит”
  • Kazakh: “ىيزمىيت”
  • Kinyarwanda: “İzmit”
  • Korean: “이즈미트”
  • Latin: “Nicomedia”
  • Latvian: “İzmit”
  • Latvian: “Izmita”
  • Latvian: “Nikomedija”
  • Latvian: “Nikomēdija”
  • Lithuanian: “Izmitas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “İzmit”
  • Macedonian: “Измит”
  • Malay: “İzmit”
  • Marathi: “इझ्मित”
  • Marathi: “निकोमेडिया”
  • Marathi: “निकोमेदिया”
  • Mazanderani: “ازمیت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “İzmit”
  • Minangkabau: “İzmit”
  • Moksha: “Измит”
  • Northern Luri: “ازمیت”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “İzmit”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “İzmit”
  • Norwegian: “İzmit”
  • Ossetian: “Измит”
  • Persian: “ازميت”
  • Persian: “ازمیت”
  • Persian: “ايزميت”
  • Persian: “ایزمیت”
  • Polish: “Izmit”
  • Polish: “İzmit”
  • Polish: “Nikomedia”
  • Portuguese: “Astaco”
  • Portuguese: “Cocaeli”
  • Portuguese: “Cojaéli”
  • Portuguese: “Izmit”
  • Portuguese: “İzmit”
  • Portuguese: “Kocaeli”
  • Portuguese: “Nicomédia”
  • Romanian: “Izmit”
  • Russian: “Измит”
  • Scots: “İzmit”
  • Serbian: “Izmit”
  • Serbian: “İzmit”
  • Serbian: “Измит”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “İzmit”
  • Somali: “İzmit”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایزمیت”
  • Spanish: “Izmit”
  • Spanish: “İzmit”
  • Swahili: “İzmit”
  • Swedish: “İzmit”
  • Tagalog: “İzmit”
  • Tajik: “Измит”
  • Tamil: “இச்மித்”
  • Tatar: “Измит”
  • Thai: “İzmit”
  • Thai: “อิซมิต”
  • Thai: “อิซมิท”
  • Turkish: “İzmit”
  • Turkish: “Nikomedia”
  • Udmurt: “Измит”
  • Uighur: “ئىزمىت”
  • Ukrainian: “Ізміт”
  • Urdu: “ازمیت”
  • Venetian: “İzmit”
  • Veps: “Izmit”
  • Vietnamese: “İzmit”
  • Waray (Philippines): “İzmit”
  • Welsh: “İzmit”
  • Western Mari: “Измит”
  • Western Panjabi: “ازمت”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊兹密特”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊茲密特”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Izmit”. Photo: Ahmet KAYNARPUNAR, CC BY-SA 3.0.