Geographical position: Turkey is located in southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia (that portion of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria.
The countrys climate is temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior.
Languages: Turkish (official), Kurdish, Arabic, Armenian, Greek.
Ankara is the capital of Turkey.
Surface: The total land area of Turkey is around 780,000 sq km.
Population: The population of Turkey is around 70 million. The largest non-Turkic ethnicity is the Kurd sect.
System of government: republican parliamentary democracy
Capital: Ankara
Religion: Sunni Muslims form officially 98% of the population, Orthodox Christians and Jews comprising the rest.
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