POPOULATION: 66,494,000
POPULATION DENSITY: 85.2 per sq km
SIZE: 780,580 sq km (301,382 sq mi)
ADJACENT COUNTRIES: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq and Syria
HIGHEST POINT: Mount Ararat (5,166 m) (16,949 ft)
NATURE:
arable land: 32%
permanent crops: 4%
permanent pastures: 16%
forests and woodland: 26%
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT: republican parliamentary democracy
HEAD OF STATE: President Ahmed Necdet Sezer since 2000
HEAD OF GOVERNMENT: Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit since 1999
CAPITAL: Ankara
MONEY: Turkish lira. Currency code: TRL Warning: high inflation!
80 PROVINCES: Adana, Adiyaman, Afyon, Agri, Aksaray, Amasya, Ankara, Antalya, Ardahan, Artvin, Aydin, Balikesir, Bartin, Batman, Bayburt, Bilecik, Bingol, Bitlis, Bolu, Burdur, Bursa, Canakkale, Cankiri, Corum, Denizli, Diyarbakir, Edirne, Elazig, Erzincan, Erzurum, Eskisehir, Gaziantep, Giresun, Gumushane, Hakkari, Hatay, Icel, Igdir, Isparta, Istanbul, Izmir, Kahramanmaras, Karabuk, Karaman, Kars, Kastamonu, Kayseri, Kilis, Kirikkale, Kirklareli, Kirsehir, Kocaeli, Konya, Kutahya, Malatya, Manisa, Mardin, Mugla, Mus, Nevsehir, Nigde, Ordu, Osmaniye, Rize, Sakarya, Samsun, Sanliurfa, Siirt, Sinop, Sirnak, Sivas, Tekirdag, Tokat, Trabzon, Tunceli, Usak, Van, Yalova, Yozgat, Zonguldak
LANGUAGE: Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Armenian, Greek. Most people know German. English is widely spoken in the south and west
NATIONAL HOLIDAY: Independence Day, October 29
TIME: GMT + 2
TIMETABLES: Turkish timetables use the 24-hour system
TELEPHONE: National and international calls can be made from coin- or card-operated telephone booths.
POST: Stamps are available from hotels, at stationer's shops and post offices
TELEGRAM: can be sent from all post offices
NATURAL HAZARDS: very severe earthquakes
EMERGENCY NUMBER: Police 115, Fire 110, Ambulance 112 |
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