Turkey
Turkey (officially Republic of Türkiye) is a country in Western Asia, with its capital at Ankara, and is home to roughly 85.5M people.
Turkish is the official language; the currency in circulation is Turkish lira (₺); people from here are called Turkish.
- »Istanbul is the only major city on two continents.
- »Göbekli Tepe predates Stonehenge and the pyramids by thousands of years.
- »Cappadocia's cave dwellings and underground cities were carved from soft volcanic rock.
Turkey touches eight neighbours: Armenia to the east, Azerbaijan to the east, Bulgaria to the northwest, Georgia to the northeast, Greece to the west, Iran to the east, Iraq to the southeast and Syria to the southeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Ankara replaced Istanbul as capital in 1923, chosen by Atatürk for its central, defensible position and its distance from the Ottoman past.
779,873 km² (301,111 sq mi), 36th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Mozambique.
Population 85,518,661, 18th of 198 on file. That averages 110 per km² (284 per sq mi).
The star and crescent were Ottoman symbols long before the republic. Legend ties them to a reflection of the moon and a star in a pool of blood after a battle.
Close enough to China's flag to cost you a guess.
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