İzmit

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 east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia. Kocaeli Province (including rural areas) 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 (in Sakarya Province). Similar to Istanbul, the area of İzmi

Akçaray is a tramway network serving İzmit, the capital of Kocaeli Province in Turkey with a population of 367,990. İzmit and Kocaeli are part of Turkey's industrial heartland, situated to the east of Istanbul and on the north coast of the Marmara Sea. It has the distinction of being the first and currently the only tramway line in the province of Kocaeli and one of two mass transit lines with the construction of the Gebze Metro.thumbnail|Akçaray while moving