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Turkey

 

On this page you will find a map of Turkey and some information about the country. The map is a detail of a Map of the World published by Planet Poster Editons in Germany.

 

This Map of the World costs 11.50 Euros, it is described in detail at www.planetposter.de (only in German) and can be ordered at www.wissenladen.de.

 

Official name of country: Türkiye

Official script of the country: Latin/Latein

Capital: Ankara.

Number of inhabitats: see www.citypopulation.de.

 

Map of Turkey

 

Map of Turkey with surrounding areas. - Landkarte von Türkei. - Mapa de Turquía. - Carte de Turquie.

 



Turkey's capital is Ankara, the biggest city of the country is Istanbul. Flights to Turkey go to many different destinations, including big cities and holiday regions. Other important cities are Bursa, Izmir, Antalya, Konya, Mersin, Adana, Gaziantep, Kayseri, Samsun, Sivas, Trabzon, Malatya, Erzurum, Diyarbakir and Van. The names of the longest rivers are Kizil Irmak, Firat (= Euphrates) and Dicle (= Tigris). The name if the highest mountain peak is Ararat (5137 m altitude).
The single official language of Turkey is Turkish. Many different languages are spoken in Turkey, and the problem of the official language is rarely as problematic as in Turkey. In the eastern part of the country there are regions where Turkish is rarely spoken. Kurdish, Armenian and other languages are frequently spoken there. The Kurdish language and culture have been suppressed for decades by the Turkish state, the situation has improved with increasing interests of the Turkish government to approach the European Union. The Kurdish language in Turkey is written in the Latin script.
In the west, mainly in Istanbul, Greek is still spoken by a minority. The Greek-speaking population has never been expelled from Istanbul, which has always been a tolerant city and did not participate in the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1922.
Tourism is of high importance in Turkey. We would appreciate more detailed information, also about tourism, flights, or individual tours to Turkey.

 

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This is our Map of the World with original scripts (original size 70 x 100 cm), from which the detailed map shown above has been cut out. The numbers of city inhabitants and vegetational zones were researched by hand for every country, by using the sources listed below. This procedure prevented the map from containing traditional errors provoked by simply copying such information from previous maps.

The map can be ordered for 11.50 Euros (+ postage and packing) at www.wissenladen.de.

 

Sources on which the information contained in this map is based:

 

The vegetational base map was aligned with satellite pictures from Google Earth.

The official names of the countries are quite well researched at www.geonames.de.

Also here you can find information on the geography of many countries: www.geographixx.de.

The numbers of inhabitants of the cities were taken from www.citypopulation.de.

And the mountain peak altitudes were largely derived form www.peakbagger.com.

 

This is the link to the sitemap, where all areas with maps are linked.

 

 

The Map of the World was compiled by F. Welter-Schultes (Planet Poster Editions, Göttingen, Germany). Copyright (c) 2006 R. Krätzner & F. Welter-Schultes.

Commercial reprints of detailed maps like this one, including on commercial web pages, are not principally excluded, but require explicite permission of the publisher. We will be pleased to grant such a permission, prices are individually negociable and certainly not too expensive.
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Reprints for non-commercial purposes are even less complicated - but also in these cases please inform the publisher in advance, and in any case mention the source www.planetposter.de.

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