Geography of Turkey

Turkey borders the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and borders the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria.

Anatolia (Turkish: Anadolu) makes a bridge between Europe and Asia. The Anatolian part of Turkey includes 97% territory of the country with many hills and mountains. The others names of Anatolia are Asia Minor, Asiatic Turkey or the Anatolian Plateau.

The European part of Turkey is called Thrace (Turkish: Trakya). It includes 3% of the territory of the all country and it is home to more than 10% of all people who live in Turkey. Istanbul is the largest city of Europe and Turkey. It has a population of 11,372,613. Thrace is divided from the Asian portion of Turkey by the Bosporus (Turkish: İstanbul Boğazı), the Sea of Marmara (Turkish: Marmara Denizi), and the Dardanelles (Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı).

Istanbul and the Bosporus.

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