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Turkey

Turkey
Standards
Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:230V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:C, F,
TV Systems:
System:PAL B / PAL G
Geography
Bordering countries:
Armenia 268 kmAzerbaijan 9 kmBulgaria 240 kmGeorgia 252 kmGreece 206 kmIran 499 kmIraq 352 kmSyria 822 km

Location:
Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia (that portion of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria
Area:
total: 780,580 sq km
land: 770,760 sq km
water: 9,820 sq km
Climate:
temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior
Terrain:
high central plateau (Anatolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain ranges
Economy
GDP: $627.2 billion (2006 est.)
GDP growth rate: 5.2% (2006 est.)
GDP per capita: $8,900 (2006 est.)
Inflation rate: 9.8% (2006 est.)
Currency: Turkish lira (YTL); old Turkish lira (TRL) before 1 January 2005
Exchange rates:
Turkish liras per US dollar - 1.44514 (2006), 1.3436 (2005), 1.4255 (2004), 1.5009 (2003), 1.5072 (2002), note, on 1 January 2005 the old Turkish Lira (TRL) was converted to new Turkish Lira (YTL) at a rate of 1,000,000 old to 1 new Turkish Lira
People
Population: 70,413,958 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 1.06% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2% (mostly Christians and Jews)
Languages:
note: there is also a substantial Gagauz population in the Europe part of Turkey
Government
Capital:
name: Ankara
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
Independence:
29 October 1923 (successor state to the Ottoman Empire)


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