Turkey March 11, 2020 Anatolie , Ankara , Asia , bassin levantin , Black Sea , Bosphorus , Byzantine Empire , Conseil turcique , Constantinople , Cyprus , Dardanelles , Détroit d’Istanbul , earthquake , earthquakes , Euphrates , Europe , Istanbul , Izmir , Kurdistan , Levant , Levantin , Mediterranean Sea , mer de Marmara , mer Égée , Mont Ararat , Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , NATO , Near East , OECD , Ottoman Empire , Republic , république parlementaire , Strait of Bosphorus , Strait of Dardanelles , terrorism , Thrace , Tigris , tourism , Turkey , volcano , Western Asia Official name Republic of Turkey Name in local language Türkiye Cumhuriyeti (tr) Continent Asia Subcontinent Western Asia Population (ranking: 18e ) 82,003,882 inhabitants (2019) Population growth 1.47 % / year Area 783,562 km² Density 104.66 inhabitants / km² GDP (ranking: 19e )766.509 billions $USD (2018) GDP/capita (ranking ) 9,311 $USD (2018) GDP growth 2.60 % / year (2018) Life expectancy (ranking ) 77.40 years (2018) Birth rate 16.90 ‰ (2013) Fertility rate 2.14 children / woman (2015) Death rate (ranking ) 4.90 ‰ (2013) Infant mortality rate (ranking ) 10.80 ‰ (2013) Literacy rate 99.48 % (2015) Official languages Turkish Currency Turkish lira (₺ TRY) HDI (ranking: 84e )0.806 / 1 (2018) EPI (ranking )52.96 (2018) Government Unitary parliamentary constitutional republic Head of State President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan National Day 29 October (Fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 and Declaration of Republic) ISO Codes TR, TUR Demonym Turkish Tourists (ranking ) 45,628,673 people (2018)
Turkey is a transcontinental country located on the borders of Asia and Europe. It has borders with Greece , Bulgaria , Georgia , Armenia , Azerbaijan (Nakhchivan), Iran , Iraq and Syria . It is bordered on the north by the Black Sea, on the west by the Aegean Sea and on the south by the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. Eastern Thrace, the European part of the country, and Anatolia (Asia) are separated by the Sea of Marmara and the Straits of the Bosphorus (or Istanbul Strait) to the east and the Dardanelles to the west. Turkey is a parliamentary republic, its official language is Turkish and its capital is Ankara.
Mount Ararat, Turkey. Photo: Serouj Ourishian Istanbul, Turkey Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey Urban areas (2019) Urban areas Population Istanbul 15,067,724 inhabitants Ankara 5,503,985 inhabitants Izmir (İzmir ; Smyrna) 4,320,519 inhabitants Adana-Mersin 3,975,522 inhabitants Bursa 2,994,521 inhabitants Antalya 2,426,356 inhabitants Konya 2,161,303 inhabitants Gaziantep 1,974,244 inhabitants Sanliurfa (Şanlıurfa ; Urfa) 1,940,627 inhabitants Izmit (İzmit ; Kocaeli) 1,830,772 inhabitants Diyarbakir (Diyarbakır) 1,673,119 inhabitants Antakya (Antioch) 1,555,165 inhabitants Manisa 1,396,945 inhabitants Kayseri 1,358,980 inhabitants Samsun 1,295,927 inhabitants Balikesir (Balıkesir) 1,196,176 inhabitants Kahramanmaras (Kahramanmaraş) 1,112,634 inhabitants Van 1,100,190 inhabitants Aydin (Aydın) 1,068,260 inhabitants Adapazari (Adapazarı) 976,948 inhabitants Eskisehir (Eskişehir) 844,842 inhabitants
Administrative divisions Regions and Provinces Population Area Adana 2,220,125 inhabitants 14,046 km² Adıyaman 624,513 inhabitants 7,606 km² Aegean (Ege) (Region) 10,514,200 inhabitants 93,139 km² Afyonkarahisar (Afyon) 725,568 inhabitants 14,719 km² Ağrı 539,657 inhabitants 11,499 km² Aksaray 412,172 inhabitants 7,966 km² Amasya 337,508 inhabitants 5,704 km² Ankara 5,503,985 inhabitants 25,402 km² Antalya 2,426,356 inhabitants 20,791 km² Ardahan 98,907 inhabitants 4,968 km² Artvin 174,010 inhabitants 7,367 km² Aydın 1,097,746 inhabitants 7,904 km² Balıkesir 1,226,575 inhabitants 14,473 km² Bartın 198,999 inhabitants 2,080 km² Batman 599,103 inhabitants 4,659 km² Bayburt 82,274 inhabitants 3,739 km² Bilecik 223,448 inhabitants 4,307 km² Bingöl 281,205 inhabitants 8,254 km² Bitlis 349,396 inhabitants 7,094 km² Black Sea (Karadeniz) (Region) 7,973,211 inhabitants 143,537 km² Bolu 311,810 inhabitants 8,323 km² Burdur 269,926 inhabitants 7,135 km² Bursa 2,994,521 inhabitants 10,886 km² Çanakkale 540,662 inhabitants 9,950 km² Çankırı 216,362 inhabitants 7,492 km²
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