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Turkey, [a] officially the Republic of Türkiye, [b] is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
Geography of Turkey. / 39.000°N 35.000°E / 39.000; 35.000. The Anatolian side of Turkey is the largest portion in the country [ 1] that bridges southeastern Europe and west Asia. East Thrace, the European portion of Turkey comprises 3% [ 2] of the landmass but over 15% [ 2] of the population. East Thrace is separated from Asia Minor ...
Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology][ note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East ...
Anatolia. Coordinates: 39°N 35°E. Anatolia. Anadolu. Anatolia, also known as Asia Minor, has two definitions. It is either bounded by an imprecise line from the Gulf of Iskenderun to the Black Sea, or it is the entire Asian area of Turkey. [ 1][ 2] Etymology. "the East", from Greek. Geography.
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. [ 2][ 3] Additionally, Hong Kong and Macau are two coastal cities located in the south of China with autonomous status under Chinese sovereignty. The economies of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan ...
The Caucasus forest refugium is the largest throughout the Western Asian (near Eastern) region. [71] [72] The area has multiple representatives of disjunct relict groups of plants with the closest relatives in Eastern Asia, southern Europe, and even North America. [73] [74] [75] Over 70 species of forest snails of the region are endemic. [76]
The Near East is a transcontinental region around the East Mediterranean encompassing parts of West Asia, the Balkans, North Africa, it also includes the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace and Egypt. The term was invented by modern Western geographers and was originally applied to the Ottoman Empire, [ 1] but today ...
Map of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), designed in 1422 by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti. This is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only surviving map that predates the Turkish conquest of 1453. The Bosporus is visible along the right-hand side of the map, wrapping vertically around the historic city.