turkey

 Languages:
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 Turkish, spoken by 90% of the 71.1m
 Minority: Kurdish, Arabic, Circassian.
 Currency: turkish lira
 Economy
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 Economy:
 Factoring in Purchasing Power Parity, Turkey's GDP
is $1,700,000,000,000.00 (USD) with $21,100.00 (USD)
per capita. This makes it the 15th largest economy
and its citizens the 79th richest in the world. The
currency of Turkey is the Lira.
 Main products
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 Gold ($12B)
 Cars ($9.4B)
 Delivery Trucks ($5.17B)
 Vehicle Parts ($4.4B)
 Knit T-shirts ($3.17B)
Physical geography
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 The European side of Turkey is
mostly a series of rolling hills, while
across the Bosporus Strait into
central Turkey, the land rises into an
elevated central plateau (Anatolian),
surrounded by (and mixed with)
high, rugged mountains, including
the Taurus, Koroglu and Pontic
ranges.

 Turkey's highest point is Mt. Ararat

which peaks at 16,948 ft. (5,166m),

 Along the Black Sea and

Mediterranean coastlines the land is
lower and quite fertile. The Tigras,
Kizilirmak, Sakarya and Euphrates
are the most significant rivers, and
Lake Van is the largest lake.
 Political geography
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 Istanbul:the largest city in Turkey is Istanbul with
approximately 13.82 million inhabitants
 Istanbul has a diverse industrial economy,
producing commodities as varied as olive oil,
tobacco, vehicles, and electronics.
 Ankara: 4.47 million people reside.
 Izmir: with a population of 2.83 million, is the third
most populated city in Turkey.
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 history
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 Turks first lived in Central Asia around 2000 BC. Later, some of
them left Central Asia and spread around
 The Turks started to settle in Anatolia in the early 11th century
 OTTOMAN AGE 1299–1923:The Ottoman Beylik rapidly expanded
throughout the fourteenth century and thus arose the Ottoman
Empire, which ruled over a vast territory on three continents and
lasted for 623 years until the end of the First World War
 WORLD WAR I 1914 –1918: the territories of the Ottoman Empire
were occupied by Britain, France, Russia, and Greece. This was the
actual end of the Ottoman Empire.
 REPUBLIC OF TURKEY: The Republic was proclaimed on October
29, 1923.
 biological
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 FLORA OF TURKEY
 The rich Turkish flora includes more than 9.000
varieties of plants. About 3.000 of them are endemic
to Turkey and grow in nature nowhere else in the
world.

Turkey is the only country in the world under the

influence of 3 botanical geographical regions.
 biological
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 FAUNA OF TURKEY
 Turkey's fauna is so rich, different types of animals,
While the number of species throughout Europe as a
whole is around 60.000, in Turkey they number over
80.000. If subspecies are also counted, then this
number rises to over a hundred thousand.
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