Turkey

Turkey is a bi-continental country: an oft-repeated cliché about Turkey is that it is the bridge between Europe and Asia. This is true not only geographically, but also culturally, and many Turks value their European and Asian identities equally.

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Istanbul

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Istanbul is a very large city of fantastic history, culture and beauty.

Edirne

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Edirne is the chief city of Eastern Thrace, in the Marmara Region of northwest Turkey.

Ankara

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Ankara is the capital of Turkey, central within the country on the plateau of Central Anatolia.

Destinations

Marmara

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Marmara Region in northwest Turkey spans between Europe and Asia, with Istanbul the country's largest city at its heart.

Mediterranean Turkey

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Mediterranean Turkey is a region in Turkey, encompassing the entire southern coast and the inland areas backing it.

Central Anatolia

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Central Anatolia is a region of Turkey. It extends over the country's central plateau, which is mostly a steppe.

Aegean Turkey

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A land of beautiful vistas over the sea, lovely evening breezes, and majestic sunsets, Aegean Turkey is the western part of the country, including the Aegean Sea coast across from a wide arch of Greek islands and the adjoining inland areas.

Black Sea Turkey

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Black Sea Turkey in northern Turkey, is a humid and verdant region renowned for its natural beauty thanks to the high precipitation levels distributed evenly throughout the year.

Eastern Anatolia

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Eastern Anatolia is a region in Turkey. It occupies the mountainous east of the country and has the harshest winters.

Southeastern Anatolia

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Southeastern Anatolia, also known as Turkish Kurdistan, is a region in the south east of Turkey.

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Turkey

Type: Country with 85,300,000 residents
Description: transcontinental country straddling Western Asia and Southeastern Europe
Languages: Turkish, Kurdish, Dimli (individual language), Azerbaijani and Avaric
Neighbors: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Nakhchivan, Northern Cyprus, Syria and Ukraine
Categories: sovereign state, transcontinental country, Mediterranean country, social state, regional power, secular state, OECD country and locality
Location: Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of centre

39° north

Longitude of centre

35.2° or 35° 12' east

Population

85,300,000

Area

780,580 km² (301,384 miles²)

Elevation

1,148 metres (3,766 feet)

Capital

Ankara

Currency

Lira (TRY)

Phone code

.tr

Internet domain

OpenStreetMap ID

node 424298326

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place=country

GeoNames ID

298795

Wikidata ID

Q43

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Also Known As

Abkhazian: Tturk
Abkhazian: Ҭырқтәыла аҳәынҭқарра
Abkhazian: Ҭырқәтәыла
Achinese: Tureuki
Achinese: Turuki
Adyghe: Тыркуе
Afar: Túrkiya
Afrikaans: Turkye
Afrikaans: Türkiye
Akan: Turki
Akan: Tɛɛki
Albanian: Turqi
Albanian: Turqia
Algerian Arabic: الترك
Algerian Arabic: تركيا
Amharic: Turkey
Amharic: ቱርክ
Amis: Turkey
Angika: तुर्की
Arabic: Turkeya
Arabic: تركيا
Arabic: جمهورية تركيا
Aragonese: Turquía
Armenian: Թուրքիա
Arpitan: Turquia
Arpitan: Turquie
Assamese: তুৰস্ক
Assamese: তুৰ্কি
Asturian: Turquía
Atayal: Turkey
Atikamekw: Turkia
Avaric: Turka
Avaric: Туркия
Avaric: Турция
Awadhi: टर्की
Aymara: Turkiya
Azerbaijani: T.C.
Azerbaijani: TR
Azerbaijani: TUR
Azerbaijani: Türkiya
Azerbaijani: Türkiyə
Azerbaijani: Türkiyə Cümhuriyyəti
Azerbaijani: Türkiyə Respublikası
Azerbaijani: tr
Balinese: Turki
Bambara: Turiki
Bambara: Türkiye
Banjar: Turki
Bashkir: Төркиә
Basque: Turkia
Batak Toba: Turki
Bavarian: Tiakei
Belarusian: Турцыя
Belarusian: Турэцкая Рэспубліка
Belarusian: Турэччына
Bengali: তুরস্ক
Bengali: তুরস্ক প্রজাতন্ত্র
Bengali: তুর্কি
Bengali: তুর্কি প্রজাতন্ত্র
Bhojpuri: टर्की
Bhojpuri: तुर्की
Bishnupriya: তুরস্ক
Bislama: Turkey
Bosnian: Turska
Brahui: Turkí
Breton: Turkia
Buginese: Turki
Buginese: ᨈᨘᨑᨀᨗ
Bulgarian: Република Турция
Bulgarian: Турция
Burmese: တူရကီ
Burmese: တူရကီနိုင်ငံ
Catalan: Estat turc
Catalan: República Turca
Catalan: República de Turquia
Catalan: Turquia
Catalan: Türkiye
Cebuano: Turkeya
Cebuano: Turkiya
Central Bikol: Turkiya
Central Kurdish: توركیا
Central Kurdish: تورکیا
Central Kurdish: تورکیە
Central Kurdish: کۆماری تورکیا
Chamorro: Turkey
Chamorro: Türkiye
Chavacano: Turquía
Chechen: Туркойчоь
Cherokee: ᎬᏂᏱ
Cherokee: ᎬᏃ
Cheyenne: Turkey
Chinese: Thó͘-ní-kî
Chinese: Tǔěrqí
Chinese: 土耳其
Chinese: 土耳其共和国
Chinese: 土耳其共和國
Church Slavic: Тѷрци
Chuvash: Турци
Cornish: Turki
Corsican: Turchia
Cree: ᑐᕒᑭ
Crimean Tatar: Türkiye
Crimean Tatar: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti
Croatian: Republika Turska
Croatian: Turska
Czech: Turecko
Dagbani: Turkey
Dagbani: Turki
Danish: Tyrkiet
Dhivehi: ތުރުކީވިލާތް
Dimli (individual language): Tırkiya
Dinka: Turkia
Dotyali: टर्की
Dutch: Republiek Turkije
Dutch: Republiek Türkiye
Dutch: TR
Dutch: TUR
Dutch: Turkije
Dutch: Türkiye
Dzongkha: Turkey
Dzongkha: ཊཱར་ཀི
Dzongkha: བྱའི་རིགས་ཅིག
Eastern Mari: Турций
Egyptian Arabic: توركيا
English (Historic): Turkey
English: Republic of Turkey
English: Republic of Türkiye
English: TR
English: TUR
English: Türkiye
Erzya: Турция Мастор
Esperanto: Respubliko Turkio
Esperanto: TR
Esperanto: Turkio
Esperanto: Turkujo
Estonian: Türgi
Estonian: Türgi Vabariik
Ewe: Dɔkɔ
Ewe: Turkey
Ewe: Tɛki nutome
Extremaduran: Turquia
Faroese: Turkaland
Fiji Hindi: Turkey
Fijian: Turkey
Finnish: Turkki
French: République de Turquie
French: République turque
French: TR
French: Turq.
French: Turquie
French: Türkiye
French: estroict de Sibyle
French: la République de Turquie
French: tr
Friulian: Turchie
Fulah: Turkii
Fulah: Turkiya
Fulah: Türkiye
Gagauz: Türkiye
Galician: República Turca
Galician: República de Turquia
Galician: Turquía - Türkiye
Galician: Turquía
Galician: تۊرکيه
Gan Chinese: 土耳其
Ganda: Buturuki
Ganda: Ttake
Georgian: tr
Georgian: თურ.
Georgian: თურქეთი
Georgian: თურქეთის რესპუბლიკა
German: Republik Turkei
German: TR
German: TUR
German: Türkei
German: Türkiye
Ghanaian Pidgin English: Turkey
Gilaki: تۊرکيه
Goan Konkani: Turkey
Goan Konkani: तुर्की
Gorontalo: Turki
Gothic: 𐍄𐍅𐍂𐌺𐌾𐌰
Greek: Τουρκία
Greek: Τουρκική Δημοκρατία
Guarani: Turykía
Guarani: Tuykia
Guianese Creole French: Tirki
Gujarati: તુર્કસ્તાન
Gujarati: તુર્કી
Haitian: Tiki
Hakka Chinese: Thú-ngí-khì
Hausa: Kuleke
Hausa: Thú-ngí-khì
Hausa: Turkiyya
Hawaiian: Tureke
Hebrew: הרפובליקה הטורקית
Hebrew: הרפובליקה התורכית
Hebrew: טורכיה
Hebrew: טורקיה
Hebrew: טורקייה
Hebrew: תורכיה
Hebrew: תורקיה
Hindi: तुर्की
Hungarian: Törökország
Icelandic: Tyrkland
Ido: Turkia
Igbo: Turkey
Igbo: Turkéy
Iloko: Turkia
Inari Sami: Turkki
Inari Sami: Tuurki täsiväldi
Indonesian: Republik Turki
Indonesian: Turkey
Indonesian: Turki
Ingush: Туркий мохк
Interlingua: Turchia
Interlingue: Turcia
Inuktitut: ᑑᕐᑭ
Inupiaq: Turkey
Irish: An Tuirc
Irish: an Tuirc
Italian: Repubblica Turchia
Italian: Turchia
Italian: Türkiye
Jamaican Creole English: Toerki
Jamaican Creole English: Torki
Japanese: トルコ
Japanese: トルコ共和国
Javanese: Turki
Kabardian: Тырку
Kabiyè: Tuurkii
Kabuverdianu: Turkia
Kabyle: Tturk
Kalaallisut: Tyrk Nunaat
Kalaallisut: Tyrkia
Kalmyk: Түргүдин Орн
Kannada: ಟರ್ಕಿ
Kara-Kalpak: Túrkiya
Karachay-Balkar: Тюрк
Kashmiri: ترکی
Kashmiri: تُرکی
Kashmiri: तुर्किये
Kashubian: Tëreckô
Kazakh: Түркия
Khmer: តួកគី
Kikuyu: Turkey
Kikuyu: Uturuki
Kinaray-A: Torkiya
Kinaray-A: Turkiya
Kinaray-A: Tërkiye
Kinyarwanda: Turukiya
Kirghiz: Түркия
Kirghiz: Түркия Республикасы
Komi-Permyak: Тюркия
Komi: Турция
Kongo: Turki
Korean: 뛰르끼예
Korean: 터키
Korean: 터키 공화국
Korean: 튀르키예
Korean: 튀르키예 공화국
Kotava: Turka
Kurdish: Tirkiye
Kölsch: Türkei
Ladin: Turchia
Ladino: Turkia
Ladino: Turkiya
Lak: Туркия
Lao: Turkia
Lao: ປະເທດຕຸຣກີ
Lao: ເທີຄີ
Latgalian: Turceja
Latin: Turcia
Latvian: Turcija
Latvian: Turcijas Republika
Lezghian: Турция
Lezghian: Туьркия
Ligurian: Turchia
Limburgan: Turkije
Limburgan: Törkieë
Lingala: Tiliki
Lingala: Turkí
Lingua Franca Nova: Turcia
Literary Chinese: 土耳其
Lithuanian: Turkija
Liv: Tirkmō
Livvi: Turkanmua
Livvi: Turtsii
Lojban: turk
Lombard: Türchia
Low German: Turkije
Low German: Törkie
Lower Sorbian: Turkojska
Luba-Katanga: Tuluki
Luxembourgish: Tierkei
Macedo-Romanian: Turchia
Macedonian: Турција
Madurese: Turki
Maithili: टर्की
Malagasy: Torkia
Malay: Republik Turki
Malay: TR
Malay: TUR
Malay: Turki
Malay: تورکي
Malay: ريڤوبليک تورکي
Malayalam: തുർക്കി
Maltese: Repubblika tat-Turkija
Maltese: Turkija
Maltese: it-Turkija
Manipuri: ꯇꯔꯀꯤ
Manx: Yn Turkee
Maori: Tāke
Maori: Tākei
Maori: Whenua Korukoru
Marathi: तुर्कस्तान
Marathi: तुर्की
Mazanderani: ترکیه
Mazanderani: تورکیه
Min Dong Chinese: Tū-ī-gì
Min Nan Chinese: Thó·-ní-kî
Min Nan Chinese: Thó͘-ní-kî
Min Nan Chinese: Thó͘-nī-kî
Min Nan Chinese: Turkey
Min Nan Chinese: Turkiye
Min Nan Chinese: Türkiye
Min Nan Chinese: Türkiye Kiōng-hô-kok
Minangkabau: Turki
Mingrelian: თურქეთი
Mirandese: Turquie
Moksha: Туркия
Mongolian: Турк
Mongolian: ꯇꯔꯀꯤ
Moroccan Arabic: تركيا
Moroccan Arabic: توركيا
Mossi: Turkey
N'Ko: ߓߊߕߍ߫ ߣߝߊ߬ߖߌ߫
N'Ko: ߕߙߎߞߌ߫
Narom: Turtchie
Nauru: Terki
Navajo: Bichʼah Łichíiʼii Bikéyah
Navajo: Tʼóok Bikéyah
Ndonga: Turkey
Neapolitan: Turchia
Nepali: टर्की
Nepali: तुर्की
Newari: टर्की
Nias: Turki
North Ndebele: Thekhi
Northern Frisian: Türkei
Northern Luri: ترکیه
Northern Sami: Durka
Northern Sami: Durkka dásseváldi
Norwegian: Tyrkia
Norwegian Bokmål: Tyrkia
Norwegian Nynorsk: Tyrkia
Novial: Turkia
Nyanja: Turkey
Occitan (post 1500): Turquia
Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܛܘܪܩܝܐ
Old English (ca. 450-1100): Turcland
Old English (ca. 450-1100): Tyrcland
Oriya: ତୁର୍କୀ
Oromo: Tarkii
Ossetian: Турк
Pa'o Karen: တူရကီခမ်းထီ
Pali: तुर्किये
Pampanga: Republika ning Turkiya
Pampanga: Turkiya
Pangasinan: Turkiya
Pangasinan: Turkiyo
Panjabi: ਤੁਰਕੀ
Papiamento: Turkia
Pedi: Turkey
Pennsylvania German: Turkie
Pennsylvania German: Welschhinkel
Persian: ترکیه
Persian: جمهوری ترکیه
Pfaelzisch: Turkije
Pfaelzisch: Türkei
Picard: Turkie
Piemontese: Turchìa
Pitcairn-Norfolk: Turkii
Polish: Turcja
Polish: Türkiye
Pontic: Τουρκία
Portuguese: República da Turquia
Portuguese: Turquia
Pushto: ترکي
Pushto: ترکيه
Pushto: تورکيه
Quechua: Turkiya
Quechua: Turkya
Quechua: Turquía
Romanian: Turcia
Romansh: Tirchia
Rundi: Turukiya
Russia Buriat: Турк
Russia Buriat: Түрэг Улас
Russian: Türkiye
Russian: Республика Тюркие
Russian: Турецкая Республика
Russian: Турция
Rusyn: Турція
Sakizaya: Turkey
Samoan: Take
Samogitian: Torkėjė
Sango: Turukïi
Sanskrit: तुर्की
Santali: ᱛᱩᱨᱠᱤ
Saraiki: ترکی
Sardinian: Turkia
Saterfriesisch: Turkäi
Scots: Turkey
Scottish Gaelic: An Tuirc
Serbian: Turska
Serbian: Турска
Serbo-Croatian: Turkya
Serbo-Croatian: Turska
Serbo-Croatian: Türkei
Shan: မိူင်းတိူဝ်ႇၵီႇ
Shan: မိူင်းၽိၼ်ႇလၢၼ
Shona: Turkey
Shona: Turuki
Sicilian: Turchìa
Silesian: Turcyjo
Sindhi: ترڪي
Sinhala: තුර්කිය
Skolt Sami: Turkk
Skolt Sami: Turkkjânnam
Skolt Sami: Tuurk tääʹssväʹldd
Slovak: Turecko
Slovak: Turecká republika
Slovenian: Turčija
Somali: Turki
Somali: Turkiga
South Azerbaijani: تورکیه
Southern Sotho: Turkey
Southern Sotho: Türkiye
Spanish: República Turca
Spanish: República de Turquía
Spanish: TR
Spanish: TUR
Spanish: Turquia
Spanish: Turquía
Spanish: Türkiye
Sranan Tongo: Turkiyakondre
Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵜⵓⵔⴽⵢⴰ
Sundanese: Turki
Swahili: Uturuki
Swati: IThekhi
Swedish: Turkiet
Swiss German: Türkei
Tachelhit: Turkya
Tagalog: Turkiya
Tahitian: Turiti
Tajik: Туркия
Tajik: Туркиё
Talysh: Tyrkijə
Talysh: Tırkiyə
Tamil: துருக்கி
Tatar: Törkiä
Tatar: Төркия
Tatar: Төркия Җөмһүрияте
Telugu: టర్కీ
Tetum: Turkia
Thai: Republic of Turkey
Thai: Turkey
Thai: ตุรกี
Thai: ประเทศตุรกี
Thai: สาธารณรัฐตุรกี
Tibetan: ཏུར་ཀི།
Tibetan: ཏུརཀི།
Tigrinya: TR
Tigrinya: TUR
Tigrinya: ሪፓብሊክ ቱርኪ
Tigrinya: ቱርኪ
Tigrinya: ቱርክ
Tok Pisin: Teki
Tonga (Tonga Islands): Toake
Tosk Albanian: Türkei
Tsonga: Turkey
Tswana: Turkey
Tulu: ಟರ್ಕಿ
Tumbuka: Turkey
Tunisian Arabic: تركيا
Turkish: Republic of Türkiye
Turkish: T.C.
Turkish: T. C.
Turkish: TC
Turkish: TR
Turkish: TUR
Turkish: Türkiye
Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti
Turkmen: Türkiýe
Tuvinian: Турция
Twi: Turkey
Tyap: Ri̱pobi̱lik Toki
Tyap: Ri̱pobi̱lik Turkiya
Tyap: TR
Tyap: TUR
Tyap: Toki
Tyap: Turkey
Tyap: Turkiya
Tyap: tr
Udmurt: Турция
Uighur: Türkiye
Uighur: تۈركىيە
Uighur: تۈركىيە جۇمھۇرىيىتى
Ukrainian: Турецька Республіка
Ukrainian: Туреччина
Ukrainian: Турція
Upper Sorbian: Republika Turkowska
Upper Sorbian: Turkowska
Urdu: ترکی
Urdu: ترکیہ
Uzbek: Turkiya
Venda: Turkey
Venetian: Turchia
Venetian: Turchìa
Veps: Turcii
Veps: Turcijan Tazovaldkund
Veps: Turkanma
Veps: Turkanman Tazovaldkund
Vietnamese: TNK
Vietnamese: Thổ Nhĩ Kì
Vietnamese: Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ
Vlaams: Turkeye
Vlax Romani: Turkiya
Volapük: Türkän
Võro: Türgü
Walloon: Tourkeye
Waray (Philippines): Turkeya
Welsh: Twrci
Western Armenian: Թուրքիա
Western Balochi: تورکیه
Western Frisian: Turkije
Western Mari: Турци
Western Panjabi: ترکی
Wolof: Tirki
Wu Chinese: 土耳其
Xhosa: ITurkiya
Yakut: Түркийэ
Yakut: Түүркүйэ
Yiddish: טערקיי
Yoruba: Turkey
Yoruba: Túrkì
Yoruba: Tọọki
Yue Chinese: 土耳其
Zeeuws: Turkije
Zhuang: Dujwjgiz
Zulu: ITheki
Zulu: i-Turkey
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