
Travel to Turkey with low cost airport transfers and car rental
Destination Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, a country between Europe and Asia, located on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small enclave in Thrace in the Balkans of southeastern Europe.
Official name: Republic of Turkey
Location: Turkey is located in Southeastern Europe and Southwest Asia. European Turkey is relatively small compared to the Asian part, the Anatolian Plateau, which is a large peninsula.
Area: 780,580 square kilometers with a total coastline of 8,430 km
Population: 80,810,525
Capital: Ankara
Landscape: The Asian part of the country - Anatolia is a high hilly plateau with narrow coastal plains. The northern part is covered by the Pontic and Köroğlu mountain ranges, the southern by the Taurus Mountains. Eastern Turkey has a more mountainous landscape. The rivers Euphrates, Tigris and Aras have their source here. Anatolia is surrounded by the Black Sea in the north, the Aegean Sea in the west and the Mediterranean Sea in the south. The European part is covered with parts of Eastern Thrace and the Strandzha mountain. It is separated by Anatolia (Asia Minor) by the Black Sea, the Bosphorus, Marmara, the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea. The largest city in Turkey is Istanbul, which steps on both continents.