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Turkey, [a] officially the Republic of Türkiye, [b] is a country mainly 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 (and Cyprus) to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
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, the ...
Turkey, 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. Turkey is a democratic , secular , unitary , constitutional republic whose political system was established in 1923 under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ...
The total population of Turkey is 85,279,553 [1] according to the 2023 estimate, making it the 18th most populated country in the world. Istanbul , Turkey's economic and cultural capital is the largest city with a population of 15.84 million in its metropolitan area as of 2021.
Geographical regions of Turkey. Map of the geographic regions, color-coded, with national (gray) and provincial borders (white). 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 ...
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 history of Turkey, understood as the history of the area now forming the territory of the Republic of Turkey, includes the history of both Anatolia (the Asian part of Turkey) and Eastern Thrace (the European part of Turkey). These two previously politically distinct regions came under control of the Roman Empire in the second century BC ...
After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the official establishment of the Republic of Turkey on 29 October 1923, changes were made to the administrative system. Two years later, Ardahan, Beyoğlu, Çatalca, Dersim, Ergani, Gelibolu, Genç, Kozan, Oltu, Muş, Siverek and Üsküdar provinces were transformed into districts.