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Turkey is located across Europe and Asia, extending into south eastern Europe
(the part of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe) and
south western Asia. It also borders the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia,
the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria. It also
shares borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq and Iran. The present day Turkey
was created in 1923 from the Turkish remnants of the Ottoman Empire. It is made
up of 81 provinces:
• Adana
• Adıyaman
• Afyon
• Ağrı
• Aksaray
• Amasya
• Ankara
• Antalya
• Ardahan
• Artvin
• Aydın
• Balıkesir
• Bartın
• Batman
• Bayburt
• Bilecik
• Bingöl
• Bitlis
• Bolu
• Burdur
• Bursa |
• Çanakkale
• Çankırı
• Çorum
• Denizli
• Diyarbakır
• Düzce
• Edirne
• Elazığ
• Erzincan
• Erzurum
• Eskişehir
• Gaziantep
• Giresun
• Gümüşhane
• Hakkari
• Hatay
• Iğdır
• Isparta
• İçel
• İstanbul
• İzmir |
• Kahramanmaraş
• Karabük
• Karaman
• Kars
• Kastamonu
• Kayseri
• Kırıkkale
• Kırklareli
• Kırşehir
• Kilis
• Kocaeli
• Konya
• Kütahya
• Malatya
• Manisa
• Mardin
• Muğla
• Muş
• Nevşehir
• Niğde |
• Ordu
• Osmaniye
• Rize
• Sakarya
• Samsun
• Siirt
• Sinop
• Sivas
• Şanlıurfa
• Şırnak
• Tekirdağ
• Tokat
• Trabzon
• Tunceli
• Uşak
• Van
• Yalova
• Yozgat
• Zonguldak |
The country has been grouped into the following regions: |
• Agean Region, Izmir and the
• Marmara, Istanbul and the
• Mediterranean Region, Antalya and the |
• South East Region, Anatolia
• East Region, Eastern Anatolian
• Black Sea Region |
• South Agean Region
• Central Anatolia Region, Ankara and the
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