Welcome to İzmir!
Izmir (Turkish: İzmir) is a rapidly growing city on the Central Aegean coast of Turkey. Izmir is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, the capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara, and the second largest urban agglomeration on the Aegean Sea after Athens.
As of the last 31 Smýrnē) – a name that remained in use in English and various other languages until around 1930, when government efforts led the original Greek name to be gradually phased out internationally in favor of its Turkish counterpart İzmir. Lying on an advantageous location at the head of a gulf running down in a deep indentation, midway along the western Anatolian coast, İzmir has been one of the principal mercantile cities of the Mediterranean Sea for much of its history. It hosted the Mediterranean Games in 1971 and the World University Games (Universiade) in 2005. The city participated in Climathon in 2019.