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Turkey is the world 37th-largest country in terms of area as its mentioned in Turkey on world map. The country of Turkey is encircled by seas on three sides: the Aegean Sea to the west, the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean to the south. Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara in the northwest.
Turkey has the world 16th largest GDP-PPP and 17th largest nominal GDP. The country is among the founding members of the OECD and the G-20 major economies as you can see in Turkey on world map. During the first six decades of the republic, between 1923 and 1983, Turkey has mostly adhered to a quasi-statist approach with strict government planning of the budget and government-imposed limitations over private sector participation, foreign trade, flow of foreign currency, and foreign direct investment.
Turkey has a large automotive industry, which produced 1,072,339 motor vehicles in 2012 as its shown in Turkey on world map, ranking as the 16th largest producer in the world. The automotive industry is a sector of primary importance for the Turkish economy. The industry has prospered since 1960 and became export oriented and competitive after 1990 with the arrival of global car makers.
Map of Turkey and surrounding countries shows all countries around Turkey. This Turkey map and bordering countries will allow you to know neighboring countries and the geographical location of Turkey in Asia. The Turkey map and surrounding countries is downloadable in PDF, printable and free.
Turkey is bordered by eight countries as its mentioned in the map of Turkey and surrounding countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea is to the south; the Aegean Sea is to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
The boundary with Greece as you can see in the map of Turkey and surrounding countries was confirmed by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, which resolved persistent boundary and territorial claims involving areas in Thrace and provided for a population exchange (see: War of Independence). Under the agreement, most members of the sizable Greek-speaking community of western Turkey were forced to resettle in Greece, while the majority of the Turkish-speaking residents of Thrace who were not forced out during the Balkan wars were removed to Turkey. The boundary with Bulgaria was confirmed by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. Since 1991 the more than 500 km (311 mi) boundary with the former Soviet Union, which was defined in the 1921 Treaty of Moscow (1921) and Treaty of Kars, has formed Turkey borders with the independent countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
The boundary with Iran as its shown in the map of Turkey and surrounding countries was confirmed by the Kasr-i Sirin treaty in 1638. The boundary with Iraq was confirmed by the Treaty of Angora (Ankara) in 1926. Turkey two southern neighbors, Iraq and Syria, had been part of the Ottoman Empire up to 1918. According to the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne, Turkey ceded all its claims to these two countries, which had been organized as League of Nations mandates under the governing responsibility of Britain and France, respectively. Turkey and Britain agreed the boundary in the Treaty of Angora (Ankara). Turkey's boundary with Syria has not been accepted by Syria. As a result of the Treaty of Lausanne, the former Ottoman Sanjak (province) of Alexandretta (present-day Hatay Province) was ceded to the France which administered it on behalf of the League of Nations.
Map of Turkey in Asia shows the location of Turkey in the Asia continent. Turkey map Asia will allow you to easily know where is Turkey in Asia and to know countries near. The Turkey in the Asia map is downloadable in PDF, printable and free.
Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (About this sound Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ), is a transcontinental country, located mostly on Anatolia in Western Asia as its shown in Turkey map Asia and on East Thrace in Southeastern Europe. The European portion of Turkey is known as Thrace, while the Asian is called Anatolia or Asia Minor; Istanbul straddles both as the world only city located on two continents.
Turkey is a transcontinental Eurasian country as its mentioned in Turkey map Asia. Turkey area, including lakes, occupies 783,562 square kilometres (300,948 sq mi), of which 755,688 square kilometres (291,773 sq mi) are in Southwest Asia. Asian Turkey (made up largely of Anatolia), which includes 97% of the country, is separated from European Turkey by the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles (which together form a water link between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean).
The independence of the Turkic states of the Soviet Union in 1991, with which Turkey shares a common cultural and linguistic heritage, allowed Turkey to extend its economic and political relations deep into Central Asia as you can see in Turkey map Asia, thus enabling the completion of a multi-billion-dollar oil and natural gas pipeline from Baku in Azerbaijan to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey.