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779,452 sq km (300,948 sq miles). |
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63,745,000 (official estimate 1997). |
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81.8 per sq km. |
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Ankara. Population: 2,837,937 (1995). |
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Turkey borders the Black Sea and Georgia and Armenia to the northeast, Iran to the east, Iraq to the southeast, Syria and the Mediterranean to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest. Asia Minor (or Anatolia) accounts for 97% of the country and forms a long, wide peninsula 1650km (1025 miles) from east to west and 650km (400 miles) from north to south. Two east–west mountain ranges, the Black Sea Mountains in the north and the Taurus in the south, enclose the central Anatolian plateau, but converge in a vast mountainous region in the far east of the country. It is here that the ancient Tigris and Euphrates rivers rise. |
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Turkish. French, German and English are widely spoken in cities. |
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GMT + 2 (GMT + 3 from last Sunday in March to Saturday before last Sunday in October). |
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220 volts AC, 50Hz. |
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Telephone: IDD is available. Country code: 90. Outgoing international
code: 00. There is an extensive internal telephone network, but often an
interpreter will be needed for more remote areas. To phone from PTT telephone
booths, which are found in all areas, telephone cards and tokens are used.
Local, inter-city and international calls can be made from all PTT offices.
Fax: All hotels and PTT offices have facilities.
Telegram: These may be sent from all post offices. Post: Airmail to Europe
takes three days. Turkish post offices are recognisable by their yellow PTT signs. Major post offices open 0800-2400 Monday to Saturday and 0900-1900 Sunday. Small post offices have the same opening hours as government offices. It is also possible to use the 'Valuables Despatch Service' for valuable belongings or important documents. Press: The main newspapers are Hürriyet, Sabah, Milliyet and Zaman. English-language daily newspapers include The Turkish Daily News. |
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