Straddles Europe and Asia, and Gรถbekli Tepe here is the oldest known monumental architecture on Earth.
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Turkey
Republic of Tรผrkiye ยท Tรผrkiye
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
783.56Kkmยฒ of land
$9.13KGDP / person
AnkaraCapital
- ISO codes
- TR ยท TUR
- Density
- 107 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Turkish
- Currency
- Turkish lira (TRY)
- Dial code
- +90
- Internet domain
- .tr
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 39.3450ยฐ N, 34.5080ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Turkish
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Emerging region: MIKT
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $761.43B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 8
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By the numbers
How Turkey stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
17th
of 242 ยท 1.09% of world population
Land area
38th
of 242 ยท 0.52% of world land
GDP per person
110th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
96th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Turkey
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 83,429,615 people, the 17th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 1.09 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 783,562 kmยฒ, making it the 38th largest country here - about 8.5 times the size of Portugal.
Population density is about 107 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Ankara, at 39.93ยฐ N, 32.86ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 3,716,000.
Shares land borders with 8 countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia and Greece (and 3 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Istanbul.
The currency is the Turkish lira (TRY, symbol โบ).
The official language is Turkish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Istanbul
--:--:--
UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Istanbul
Istanbul
41.1069ยฐ N, 29.0081ยฐ E
10.06M
2
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Ankara
Ankara
39.9292ยฐ N, 32.8624ยฐ E
3.72M
3
ฤฐzmir
Izmir
38.4381ยฐ N, 27.1498ยฐ E
2.59M
4
Bursa
Bursa
40.2019ยฐ N, 29.0681ยฐ E
1.49M
5
Adana
Adana
36.9969ยฐ N, 35.3181ยฐ E
1.29M
6
Konya
Konya
37.8770ยฐ N, 32.4731ยฐ E
919K
7
Samsun
Samsun
41.2800ยฐ N, 36.3437ยฐ E
609.34K
๐ Peaks
Mount Ararat
5,137 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Hagia Sophia
Ancient
Its dome held the record as the world's largest interior space for close to a thousand years.
Cappadocia
Nature
Volcanic tuff eroded into fairy chimneys, hollowed into churches and underground cities eighteen storeys deep.
Istanbul
City
The only city standing on two continents, and capital of three successive empires.
Land neighbours
8 countries share a border with Turkey.