İzmit

İzmit

İzmit ranks 2,514th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bad Ischl, Móstoles, and Maubeuge. Memorable people born in İzmit include Meral Akşener, Demet Özdemir, and İbrahim Çelikkol. Memorable people who died in İzmit include Ali Kemal, Emeric Thököly, and Saint Pantaleon. İzmit has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. İzmit is located in Türkiye.

İzmit is a municipality and the capital district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Its area is 480 km2, and its population is 376,056 (2022). The capital of Kocaeli Province, it is located at the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea of Marmara, about 100 km (62 mi) east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia. Kocaeli Province had a population of 2,079,072 inhabitants in 2022, of whom approximately 1.2 million lived in the largely urban İzmit City metro area made up of Kartepe, Başiskele, Körfez, Gölcük, Derince and Sapanca. Similar to Istanbul, the area of İzmit is coterminous with its province. Read more on Wikipedia