TURKIJA
Turkey
Ankara
is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city,Istanbul being the largest. The city has a mean elevation of 938 meters and in 2014 had a population of 5,150,072, with its metropolitan municipality having 4,965,542.
It is the center of the Turkish Government, and an important commercial and industrial city. Located in Central Anatolia, Ankara is an important crossroads of trade, strategically located at the center of Turkey's highway and railway networks, and serves as the marketing center for the surrounding agricultural area. The city is traditionally famed for its long-haired Angora goat and its prized wool (mohair), a unique breed of cat (Angora cat), Angora rabbits and their prized Angora wool, pears, honey, and the region's muscat grapes.
Istanbul
is the largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. Istanbul is atranscontinental city in Eurasia, with its commercial and historical centre lying on the European side and about a third of its population living on the Asian side of Eurasia.[3]With a population of 14.4 million, the city forms the largest urban agglomeration in Europe[d] as well as the largest in the Middle East, and the sixth-largest city proper in the world.Istanbul's vast area of 5,343 square kilometers is coterminous with Istanbul Province, of which the city is the administrative capital. Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus strait in northwestern Turkey, between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea.
Izmir
Ä°zmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia and the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. Ä°zmir's metropolitan area extends along the outlying waters of the Gulf of Ä°zmir and inland to the north across Gediz River's delta, to the east along an alluvial plain created by several small streams and to a slightly more rugged terrain in the south. The ancient city was known as Smyrna , and the city was generally referred to as Smyrna in English, until the Turkish Postal Service Law of 28 March 1930 made "Ä°zmir" the internationally recognized name.
