Location and geography

Turkey extends geographically across two continents. Anatolia, the Asian part of the Turkish territory, occupies about 97% of the area. The European part is eastern Thrace and covers about 3% of the country's surface (23.623 km²). The national borders of Turkey have a total length of approx. 9.850 km, of which 7.200 km are bordered by the sea. In the west of Turkey lies the Aegean Sea, in the south the Mediterranean and in the north the Black Sea. In addition Turkey shares with eight neighboring countries a border with a total length of 2.648 km...

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