Geography of Turkey
Turkey is a large, roughly rectangular peninsula, bridge-like between southeastern Europe and Asia. In fact, the country extends as a bridge for human movement throughout history worked.Turkey about 1600 km from west to east but generally less than 800 kilometers from north to south. Total area is approximately 779 452 square kilometers, of which 755 688 square kilometers are in Asia and 23 764 square kilometers in Europe.
The European part of Turkey, known as Thrace (Trakya), encompasses 3 percent of the total land area but is home to more than 10 percent of the total population. Thrace is separated from the Asian part of Turkey by the Bosphorus (Istanbul Bogazi or Bogazi Karadeniz), the Sea of Marmara (Marmara Denizi), and the Dardanelles (Çanakkale Bogazi). The Asian part of the country through a variety of names – Asia Minor, Asiatic Turkey, the Anatolian plateau and Anatolia (Anadolu) is known. The term Anatolia is most frequently used in specific reference to the large, semiarid central plateau, which is surrounded by hills and mountains, bordered in many places, access to the fertile, densely populated coastal regions. Astride the straits between the two continents, Istanbul is the country primarily industrial, commercial and intellectual center. But picking the Anatolian city of Ankara, Ataturk and his colleagues as the capital of the new republic, the political center of the country and has emerged as an important industrial and cultural center in its own right.
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