Turkey
country
Ankara
capital city
Avaric, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Turkish
language(s)
TRY
currency
780,580 km²
area
69,660,559
population
89.24 people/km²
population density
Turkey
Regions of Turkey
- Adana Province
- Adıyaman İli
- Afyonkarahisar İli
- Aksaray Province
- Amasya Province
- Ankara Province
- Antalya Province
- Ardahan Province
- Artvin Province
- Aydın Province
- Ağrı Province
- Balıkesir Province
- Bartın Province
- Batman Province
- Bayburt İli
- Bilecik Province
- Bingöl Province
- Bitlis Province
- Bolu Province
- Burdur Province
- Bursa İli
- Denizli Province
- Diyarbakır İli
- Düzce İli
- Edirne Province
- Elazığ İli
- Erzincan Province
- Erzurum Province
- Eskişehir Province
- Gaziantep Province
- Giresun Province
- Gümüşhane İli
- Hakkâri Province
- Hatay Province
- Isparta Province
- Istanbul
- Iğdır Province
- Kahramanmaraş Province
- Karabük İli
- Karaman Province
- Kars İli
- Kastamonu Province
- Kayseri Province
- Kilis Province
- Kocaeli Province
- Konya Province
- Kütahya Province
- Kırklareli Province
- Kırıkkale Province
- Kırşehir Province
- Malatya Province
- Manisa Province
- Mardin Province
- Mersin Province
- Muğla Province
- Muş Province
- Nevşehir İli
- Niğde İli
- Ordu Province
- Osmaniye Province
- Rize İli
- Sakarya Province
- Samsun Province
- Siirt Province
- Sinop Province
- Sivas Province
- Tekirdağ Province
- Tokat İli
- Trabzon Province
- Tunceli Province
- Uşak Province
- Van Province
- Yalova Province
- Yozgat Province
- Zonguldak
- Çanakkale Province
- Çankırı Province
- Çorum Province
- İzmir İli
- Şanlıurfa Province
- Şırnak Province
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Turkey description
Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti (help·info)), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace (Rumelia) in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey borders eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west, Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhichevan), and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea and Archipelago are to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. Separating Anatolia and Thrace are the Sea of Marmara and the Turkish Straits (the Bosporus and the Dardanelles), which are commonly reckoned to delineate the border between Asia and Europe, thereby making Turkey transcontinental. Due to its strategic location astride two continents, Turkey's culture has a unique blend of Eastern and Western tradition. A powerful regional presence in the Eurasian landmass with strong historic, cultural and economic influence in the area between Europe in the west and Central Asia in the east, Russia in the north and the Middle East in the south, Turkey has come to acquire increasing strategic significance. Turkey is a transcontinental Eurasian country. Asian Turkey (made up largely of Anatolia), which includes 97% of the country, is separated from European Turkey by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles (which together form a water link between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean). European Turkey (eastern Thrace or Rumelia in the Balkan peninsula) includes 3% of the country. The territory of Turkey is more than 1,600 kilometres (1,000 mi) long and 800 km (500 mi) wide, with a roughly rectangular shape. Turkey's area, inclusive of lakes, occupies 783,562 square kilometres (300,948 sq mi), of which 755,688 square kilometres (291,773 sq mi) are in Southwest Asia and 23,764 square kilometres (9,174 sq mi) in Europe. Turkey's area makes it the world's 37th-largest country, and is about the size of Metropolitan France and the United Kingdom combined. Turkey is encircled by seas on three sides: the Aegean Sea to the west, the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara in the northwest. Turkey's varied landscapes are the product of complex earth movements that have shaped the region over thousands of years and still manifest themselves in fairly frequent earthquakes and occasional volcanic eruptions. The Bosporus and the Dardanelles owe their existence to the fault lines running through Turkey that led to the creation of the Black Sea. There is an earthquake fault line across the north of the country from west to east, which caused a major earthquake in 1999.
