Kocaeli Province
Kocaeli is a Turkish province with its capital in İzmit. The province is highly industrialized and has marked the highest gross domestic product in Turkey, it is very multi-cultural per capita. Kocaeli is bordered to the west by the city of Istanbul, in the north to the Black Sea and in the south west to the Sea of Marmara, which forms the Gulf of İzmit here.
In Kocaeli live according to the census in 2011 1.499.958 people.
Counties
The province is divided into the districts of:
- Başiskele
- Çayırova
- Darıca
- Derince
- Dilovasi
- Gebze
- Gölcük
- İzmit ( Merkez )
- Kandıra
- Karamürsel
- Kartepe
- Körfez