İzmit, Türkiye Güncel Saati — TRT.

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. It is also the most populated of any city or town in Turkey whose name isn't shared with the province it is located in.

Reading İzmit against the global hubs: London (~2,581 km), Dubai (~2,911 km), New York (~8,149 km) are the close ones, with Sydney (~14,863 km) sitting on the opposite side of the planet — a good gut check when judging logistics windows.

İzmit sits inside Türkiye — the Western Asia subregion, capital Ankara, languages Turkish, currency TRY (₺).

The closest mapped neighbors of İzmit are Derince (10 km), Gölcük (11 km), Körfez (12 km), Karamürsel (28 km), so commuter, logistics and same-day-trip planning will usually pull from this cluster.

Upcoming country holiday signals around İzmit: Labour Day, Atatürk Commemoration & Youth Day, Democracy and National Unity Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Türkiye.

Closest curated airport references from İzmit: SAW Pendik, Istanbul (54 km), ISL Istanbul(Bakırköy) (96 km), IST Istanbul (115 km).

In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.