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Geography of Turkey. / 39.000°N 35.000°E / 39.000; 35.000. The Anatolian side of Turkey is the largest portion in the country [ 1] that bridges southeastern Europe and west Asia. East Thrace, the European portion of Turkey comprises 3% [ 2] of the landmass but over 15% [ 2] of the population. East Thrace is separated from Asia Minor ...
Turkey, [a] officially the Republic of Türkiye, [b] is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
Turkey or Türkiye, sovereign Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Southwest Asia and Thrace at the southeastern tip of the Balkan Peninsula in Southern Europe. [1] Turkey is a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic whose political system was established in 1923 under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal ...
The geographical regions of Turkey comprise seven regions (Turkish: bölge), which were originally defined at the country's First Geography Congress in 1941. [1] The regions are subdivided into 31 sections (Turkish: bölüm), which are further divided into numerous areas (Turkish: yöre), as defined by microclimates and bounded by local geographic formations.
Dozens of smaller aftershocks followed the initial tremor, with the combined death toll in Turkey and neighbouring Syria topping 5,000. This map shows the approximate epicentres of the first two ...
Istanbul. / 41.01361°N 28.95500°E / 41.01361; 28.95500. Istanbul[ b] is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is considered the country's economic, cultural and historic capital. The city has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of ...
The Sea of Marmara, [a] also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is a small inland sea located entirely within the borders of Turkey. It connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea via the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, separating Turkey’s European and Asian sides. It has an area of 11,350 km 2 (4,380 sq mi), and its dimensions ...
Ankara (/ ˈ æ ŋ k ər ə / ANG-kər-ə, US also / ˈ ɑː ŋ-/ AHNG-kər-ə; Turkish: ⓘ), [b] historically known as Ancyra [c] and Angora, [d] [15] is the capital of Turkey.Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, [5] [4] making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the ...