Turkey Info
Population: 72 million
Administrative system: Parliamentary republic, founded in 1923
Economy: GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) Total $ 880.06, per capita $ 12.476, GDP (nominal) Total $ 615.329 billion, per capita $ 8.723
Geography: Turkey is located on a peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the south, and Aegean Sea in the west. 97 % of surface area is in Asia (on a peninsula called Anatolia), and the remaining 3 % is in Europe.
Turkey is divided into 81 provinces (or cities) and seven geographical regions: Marmara, Black Sea, Aegean, Mediterranean, Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia regions. Click on the map to see some key places...
Currency: Turkish Lira
Rough exchange rates as of 04/2010
1$ (US DOLLAR) = 1.5 TL
1€ (EURO) = 2 TL
£1 (UK POUND) = 2.3 TL
Unless you go to remote villages, you can find ATMs, banks and exchange offices everywhere in Turkey. In big cities and tourism hubs, people mostly accept foreign currency.
Credit card is wide-spread, Visa and Mastercard are easily accepted everywhere. Travellers cheques are not very popular. Shopkeepers always prefer cash.
Agriculture: the largest producer of hazelnuts, cherry, fig, apricot, third largest producer of tomato and pistachio, fourth largest producer of olive, sixth largest producer of tobacco, tea and apple...
Main industries: Textiles and clothing, oil refinery, food, chemicals, iron and steel, automotive and machinery (Europe’s seventh largest automotive producer), construction and contracting (world’s third largest after USA and China).
Turkey has the 5th highest direct utilisation and capacity of geothermal power.
Around 60 different minerals are produced in Turkey. Turkey has the richest boron deposits (72 %). Other main minerals include coal, iron, copper, chromium...
 
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Sarcophagus is the combination of two Greek words meaning flesh-decaying. In a town called Assos, the local stone made of andesite decays flesh easily, and tomb boxes were made out of that stone, and named “sarcophagus”. Right now when we say sarcophagus, we refer to any kind of box shaped tombs regardless of the material used.

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People & Places
Egyptian Obelisk, Hippodrome
The oldest monument in the Hippodrome is the Egyptian Obelisk dating back to 15th century BC.

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