Kocaeli (Province)

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Kocaeli
Province number:	41
Counties
Basic data
Coordinates:	40 ° 51 '  N , 29 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 51 '  N , 29 ° 53'  E
Provincial capital:	İzmit
Region:	Marmara region
Surface:	3,626 km²
Population:	1,830,772 (2016)
Population density:	505 inhabitants / km²
Political
Governor:	Hasan Basri Güzeloğlu
Seats in Parliament:	11
Structural
Telephone code:	0262
Features :	41
Website
www.kocaeli.gov.tr (Turkish)

Kocaeli is a province in northwestern Turkey .

Kocaeli borders the metropolis of Istanbul in the west, the Black Sea in the north, Sakarya in the east and the Sea of ​​Marmara , which forms the Gulf of İzmit here, in the southwest . The center is İzmit , formerly also known officially as Kocaeli.

The province of Kocaeli is industrialized above average and has the highest gross national product per capita in Turkey. Over 1.8 million people live in it.

structure

Kocaeli has been a large city (Büyükşehir belediyesi) with its own (upper) mayor (Büyükşehir belediye başkanı) since 1993. After an administrative reform in 2014, all state subdistricts of the province ( İlçe ) are organized as member municipalities ( Belediye ) of the metropolitan municipality. Since then, the old provincial capital has officially been called İzmit as a member municipality of the city. Therefore, the twelve rural districts are also urban districts:

• Basiskele
• Çayırova
• Darıca
• Derince
• Dilovası
• Gebze
• Gölcük
• İzmit
• Kandıra
• Karamürsel
• Kartepe
• Korfez

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Turkish Institute for Statistics , accessed December 24, 2017
2. ^ Website of the Kocaeli Province