Country guide

Turkey

Capital, flag, borders and quick geography facts for Turkey.

Key facts

Turkey has 8 land neighbors in the country data.

Turkey's capital is Ankara, though Istanbul, on the Bosphorus Strait, is the only metropolis on Earth that spans two continents, Europe and Asia.

Turkey covers 783,562 square kilometers and borders eight countries, with Iran as its largest neighbor.

Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey holds carved stone megaliths roughly 11,000 years old, the oldest known monumental architecture on Earth.

Turkish coffee culture is listed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage.
Turkey produces more than half of the world's hazelnuts, making it the largest hazelnut producer on Earth by a wide margin.
Istanbul is the only metropolis in the world that lies on two continents, divided between Europe and Asia by the Bosphorus Strait.
Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey holds carved stone megaliths roughly 11,000 years old, the oldest known monumental architecture on Earth.
Cappadocia's 'fairy chimney' rock towers formed as wind and rain eroded layers of volcanic ash that had hardened into soft tuff stone.

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