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Area > Comparative slightly larger than Texas |
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Area > Land
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770,760 sq km |
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[37th of 238]
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Area > Total
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780,580 sq km |
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[43rd of 250]
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Capital city with population
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Ankara - 2,890,025 |
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Climate temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior |
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Forested Land
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13.3% |
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[135th of 193]
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Geographic coordinates
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39 00 N, 35 00 E |
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Land boundaries > Border countries Armenia 268 km, Azerbaijan 9 km, Bulgaria 240 km, Georgia 252 km, Greece 206 km, Iran 499 km, Iraq 352 km, Syria 822 km |
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Land use > Arable land
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29.81% |
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[23rd of 258]
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Largest city
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Istanbul |
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Largest city population
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7,911,000 |
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[16th of 174]
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Largest city with population
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Istanbul - 8,803,468 |
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Location Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia (that portion of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria |
Map references Middle East |
Natural resources coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestite (strontium), emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite, pumice, pyrites (sulfur), clay, arable land, hydropower |
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Population density
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85.11 people per sqkm |
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[106th of 256]
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Population density > people per sq. km
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93.64 people/m²
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[91st of 204]
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Precipitation
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697 mm |
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[51st of 95]
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Surface area > sq. km
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783,560 km²
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[36th of 206]
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tallest mountains > Mountain
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Mount Ararat |
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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook, City Population, CIA World Factbook, World Gazetteer, Official government websites.; FAO; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Heal The World Foundation.; World Development Indicators database; Wikipedia: List of tallest mountains by country
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Turkey, Republic of Turkey, Turkiye Cumhuriyeti, Turkiye
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