Map of Turkey

Turkey is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 39.0° N, 35.0° E. It shares land borders with 8 countries — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq and Syria — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Turkey is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Turkey shares land frontiers with the following 8 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Turkey covers about 783,562 km² (302,535 sq mi). That makes it the 36th-largest country in the world by area and the 9th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 40 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 85,664,944, the 18th-largest in the world and the 10th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 1.8% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Turkey has an average population density of about 109 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 10th by population and 9th by area.

The seat of government is Ankara, and the official currency is the Turkish lira (TRY, ₺), and the main official language is Turkish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Turkey carries the ISO country codes TR and TUR, dials on the international calling code +90 and uses the .tr internet domain.

Turkey shares its land borders with 8 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Iran (capital Tehran, about 85,961,000 people), Iraq (capital Baghdad, about 46,118,793 people), Syria (capital Damascus, about 25,620,000 people), Greece (capital Athens, about 10,400,720 people), Azerbaijan (capital Baku, about 10,241,722 people), Bulgaria (capital Sofia, about 6,437,360 people), Georgia (capital Tbilisi, about 4,000,921 people) and Armenia (capital Yerevan, about 3,076,200 people).

By area, Turkey is larger than 7 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 39.0° N, 35.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Turkey within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Ankara. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Turkey lies about 4,329 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Turkey keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Turkish lira (TRY, ₺).

The official language is Turkish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +90 and websites commonly use the .tr internet domain.

In short, Turkey is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 8 countries. Its capital is Ankara. Turkey has a population of about 85,664,944 and covers around 783,562 km² (302,535 sq mi), ranking it 18th in the world by population and 36th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Turkey.

The flag of Turkey has a red field bearing a large fly-side facing white crescent and a smaller five-pointed white star placed just outside the crescent opening. The white crescent and star are offset slightly towards the hoist side of center.

The flag of Turkey is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.