In a nutshell: Turkey

Objective Turkey is a country profiled on Countries Online that is located between Europe and Asia.

The Republic of Turkey is located in Southeast Europe's Balkan region, on the Anatolian Promontory in western Asia, and on a small patch of land in Thrace.

Turkey has coastlines on both the Dark Ocean in the north and the Mediterranean Ocean in the south and east. It shares boundaries with Iraq and Syria to the southeast, Georgia to the upper east, and Armenia, Iran, and Azerbaijan (at the exclave of Nakhchivan) to the east.

Turkey has a landmass of 783,562 km2, making it slightly smaller than the combined areas of Texas and Louisiana in the United States and more than twice the size of Germany.

The largest city in Turkey, is Istanbul, with a population of 83.2 million people (as of 2020). Ankara serves as the nation's administrative center.

Turkish (official), Kurdish (spoken by Kurds), and Arabic (spoken by Turkish Bedouins) are all dialects.

What does Turkey excel at?

Turkey is well-known for its Blue Mosque, New Mosque, Hagia Sophia (which is once again a mosque), and Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. It is also known for the Bosporus Scaffold, which connects Asia and Europe. The Galata Extension in Istanbul passes through the Brilliant Horn, the Great Market, the Stink Eye (Nazar), Tulips, Turkish covers, the Turkish shower (hammam), spinning dervishes (Sufi dance moves), the seashores of Incekum, lüdeniz (Blue Tidal pond), Kaputas, and Antalya, the astounding travertine patios of Pamukkale, the cavern places of Cappadocia