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Kartepe
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250px|thumb|right|Kartepe Historical Wisdom Mosque Kartepe is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Its area is 301 km2, and its population is 136,625 (2022). The mayor is Mustafa Kocaman (AKP).

Key facts

Turkey place.type
metro district
Turkey place.name
Kartepe
Turkey place.image_skyline
Kartepe Belediyesi.jpg
Turkey place.image_caption
Kartepe Municipality building
Turkey place.image_map
Kocaeli location Kartepe.svg
Turkey place.map_caption
Map showing Kartepe District in Kocaeli Province
Turkey place.province
Kocaeli
Turkey place.leader_party
AKP
Turkey place.leader_name
Mustafa Kocaman
Turkey place.area_total_km2
301
Turkey place.elevation_m
10
Turkey place.population_total
136625
Turkey place.population_as_of
2022
Turkey place.area_code
0262
Turkey place.other_name
Köseköy

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250px|thumb|right|Kartepe Historical Wisdom Mosque Kartepe is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Its area is 301 km2, and its population is 136,625 (2022). The mayor is Mustafa Kocaman (AKP).

== Geography == Kartepe (literally Snowy hill referring to mountains to the south) is situated at to the east of the Gulf of İzmit. It is almost merged to İzmit, the province center and it included in Greater Kocaeli (see Metropolitan centers in Turkey). Kartepe Mountains are to the south and Lake Sapanca is to the east of Kartepe.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kartepe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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