{"id":2947,"date":"2023-02-08T10:17:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T04:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:50:48","slug":"key-facts-about-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts about Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Turkey:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Turkey, also called T\u00fcrkiye, <strong>lies partly in Asia and partly in Europe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>surrounded on three sides by the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Aegean Sea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>main portion of the Turkish state is located on the Anatolia peninsula<\/strong>, also known <strong>as Asia Minor<\/strong>, the <strong>westernmost<\/strong> part of <strong>Asia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Turkey covers an area of <strong>783,562 km\u00b2<\/strong> and has a <strong>population of 83.2 million people<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>two narrow straits<\/strong> in northwestern Turkey, the <strong>Bosporus<\/strong>, which <strong>connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara<\/strong>, and the <strong>Dardanelles<\/strong>, which <strong>connect the Aegean arm of the Mediterranean Sea with the Sea of Marmara.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital: Ankara<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Largest city: Istanbul<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bordering countries:<\/strong> It is bordered by <strong>Bulgaria<\/strong> and <strong>Greece<\/strong> to the west; <strong>Armenia<\/strong>, <strong>Azerbaijan,<\/strong> and <strong>Iran<\/strong> to the east; <strong>Georgia<\/strong> to the northeast; <strong>Syria<\/strong> to the south; and <strong>Iraq<\/strong> to the southeast.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Religion:<\/strong> More than 99 percent of the population is <strong>Muslim, mostly Sunni<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spoken Languages: Turkish (official), Kurdish, and Arabic.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\u00a0Q1) Where is Anatolia peninsula?<\/h3>\n<p>Anatolia Peninsula forms the western extremity of Asia. It is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west. Its eastern boundary is generally marked by the southeastern Taurus Mountains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/turkey-earthquake-live-updates-death-toll-from-7-8-magnitude-quake-injuries-building-collapsed-11675665058953.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Turkey-Syria Earthquake Live Updates: Quake toll passes 8,300 after more than 2,400 reported dead in Syria<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey, also called T\u00fcrkiye, lies partly in Asia and partly in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}