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Turkey, officially Republic of Turkey
Population: (1995) 63,406,000
Size: 301,380 sq mi (780,574 sq km)
Capital City: Ankara
 It borders on Iraq (SE), Syria and the Mediterranean Sea (S), the Aegean Sea (W), Greece and Bulgaria (NW), on the Black Sea (N), and Armenia, Georgia, and Iran (E). Istanbull is its largest city. Administratively, Turkey is divided into 80 provinces ( iler ).
Turkey is mostly made up of highland and mountains, with some narrow strips of lowland in the west on the coasts of the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara and along the Simav, Gediz, and Menderes rivers; in the north on the Black Sea coast and along the Sakarya and Kizil Irmak rivers; and in the south on the Mediterranean coast and along the Aksu, Göksu, Seyhan, and Ceyhan rivers.
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