Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a bi-continental country: an oft-repeated cliché about Turkey is that it is the bridge between Europe and Asia.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
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
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, is a region in the south east of Turkey.
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Turkey
- Type: Country with 85,300,000 residents
- Description: country straddling Southeast Europe and West Asia
- 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 and locality
- Location: Middle East, Asia
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Latitude of center
39° northLongitude of center
35.2° or 35° 12' eastPopulation
85,300,000Area
780,580 km² (301,384 miles²)Elevation
1,148 metres (3,766 feet)Capital
AnkaraCurrency
Lira (TRY)Phone code
.trInternet domain
90OpenStreetMap ID
node 424298326OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
298795Wikidata ID
Q43Turkey Satellite Map
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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: Wikipedia:Archives/ᑐᕒᑭ
- 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): Cumhuriyeta Tırkiya
- 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: Turkiye
- 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: Türkiye
- 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: TR
- 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: 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
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Türkiye
- 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 Altai: Türkiye
- Southern Altai: Википедия:Archives/Türkiye
- 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: Turkijə
- 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: 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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