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Area > Comparative slightly larger than Texas
Area > Land	770,760 sq km		[37th of 238]
Area > Total	780,580 sq km		[43rd of 250]
Capital city with population	Ankara - 2,890,025
Climate temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior
Forested Land	13.3%		[135th of 193]
Geographic coordinates	39 00 N, 35 00 E
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
Land use > Arable land	29.81%		[23rd of 258]
Largest city	Istanbul
Largest city population	7,911,000		[16th of 174]
Largest city with population	Istanbul - 8,803,468
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
Population density	85.11 people per sqkm		[106th of 256]
Population density > people per sq. km	93.64 people/m²		[91st of 204]
Precipitation	697 mm		[51st of 95]
Surface area > sq. km	783,560 km²		[36th of 206]
tallest mountains > Mountain	Mount Ararat

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