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Turkey
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39° N / 35° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Ankara
- Population
- 85,518,661 2024
- Area
- 783,562 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Turkish
- Currency
- Turkish lira (TRY)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Turkey
Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), officially the Republic of Türkiye (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a bi-continental country: an oft-repeated cliché about Turkey is that it is the bridge between Europe and Asia. This is true not only geographically, but also culturally, and many Turks value their European and Asian identities equally.
Landscape & landmarks
Although Çatalhöyük and Göbekli Tepe, respectively the earliest settlement and the earliest temple ever found to the date in Turkey precede them, the Hittites were the first indigenous people that rose to found a state in Anatolia. They left the proof of their existence at the ruins of Hattuşaş, their capital.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
The primary vegetables are eggplant (aubergine), onion, lentil, bean, tomato, garlic, and cucumber, and as with other ingredients, their availability and prevalence depend on the region.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-26. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Western Asia
- Calling code
- +90
- Internet domain
- .tr
- Land border codes
- ARM, AZE, BGR, GEO, GRC, IRN, IRQ, SYR
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .tr. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.