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Turkey: map and facts
Turkey is in Western Asia. It has about 85.9 million people (2025), the 18th largest population. It covers 785,350 km², the 36th largest by area. That is about 109 people per km². Its highest point is Mount Ararat, at 5,137 m. The longest river on its map is the Euphrates, 2,800 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 85,878,556 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 785,350 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Ankara
- Highest point: Mount Ararat, 5,137 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 29.5% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Turkey, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Euphrates: 2,800 km
- Tigris: 1,850 km
- Kura: 1,360 km
- Kizilirmak: 1,355 km
- Aras: 1,072 km
- Sakarya: 824 km
- Murat: 722 km
- Seyhan: 560 km
- Buyuk Menderes: 548 km
- Maritsa: 490 km
Also on the map: Ceyhan, Coruh, Delice, Gediz, Tundzha, Cekerek, Filyos, Kelkit, Simav and Carsamba.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Mount Ararat: 5,137 m (its highest point)
- Kackar Dagi: 3,932 m
- Erciyes Dagi: 3,917 m
- Kizilkaya: 3,767 m
- Demirkazik: 3,756 m
- Kizlar Sivrisi: 3,070 m
- Uludag Tepe: 2,542 m
Mountain ranges: Pontic Mountains and Taurus Mountains.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Anatolia and Levant Coast.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): grassland 47%, farmland 25.8%, savanna 8.6%, wooded savanna 5.5%, evergreen conifer forest 2.9%, deciduous broadleaf forest 2.4%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): mountains 55.4%, hills 32.6%, plateaus 6.6%, plains 2.8%, high mountains 2.6%.
Forests covered 29.5% of its land in 2024, up from 25.7% in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #2 in chromium among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in silica sand among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in gypsum among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in antimony among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #8 in barite among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #8 in salt among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #9 in lead among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #9 in mica among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
Turkey shares land borders with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq and Syria on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
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