This article is about the Republic of Turkey. For other uses of "Turkey", see
Turkey (disambiguation). See also
Turk (disambiguation). Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a
Eurasian country that stretches across the
Anatolian peninsula in
southwest Asia and the
Balkan region of southeastern
Europe. Turkey borders eight countries:
Bulgaria to the northwest,
Greece to the west,
Georgia to the northeast,
Armenia,
Azerbaijan (the
Nakhichevan exclave), and
Iran to the east,
Iraq and
Syria to the southeast. It borders the
Mediterranean Sea to the south, the
Aegean Sea to the west, and the
Black Sea to the north. Turkey also contains the
Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers to mark the border between Europe and
Asia, thus making Turkey
transcontinental.
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