Useful Travel Information About Turkey - Turkey Tourist Guide

Capital: Ankara Official language: Turkish National anthem İstiklal Marşı Government: Parlimentary republic, 1923 Founder: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk President: Abdullah Gül Prime Minister: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Area: 783,562 km2 Population:  73,722,988 (2010) Currency: Turkish Lira (TRY) Time Zone: UTC + 2 Date format: dd/mm/yy Driving: On the right International calling code: +90 (0090) Coordinates: 39.916667, 32.833333

Turkish: Türkiye, offically known as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti) is a Eurasian country located between Western Asia and Southeastern Europe.

Turkey has lands on both European and Asian continents: Thrace (Trakya) is called for the land on Europe and Anatolia (Anadolu) for the land on Asia.

Country has borders with eight countries: Iraq and Syria to the south; Iran, Azerbaijan and Armenia to the east; Georgia to the northeast and Bulgaria and Greece to the northwest.

Three sides surrounded by sea: Mediterranean Sea to the south; Aegean Sea to the west and Black Sea to the north. Also an inner sea to the northwest, the Marmara Sea forms Turkish Straits; the Bosphorus Strait in İstanbul and Dardanelles Strait in Çanakkale. These straits seperate Thrace and Anatolia, also Europe and Asia.

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