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Geography

Location: Southwestern Asia (that part west of the Bosporus is sometimes included with Europe), bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and bordering the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria

Area:
total area: 780,580 sq km
land area: 770,760 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Texas

Land boundaries: total 2,627 km, Armenia 268 km, Azerbaijan 9 km, Bulgaria 240 km, Georgia 252 km, Greece 206 km, Iran 499 km, Iraq 331 km, Syria 822 km

Coastline: 7,200 km


People

Population: 63,405,526 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 35% (female 10,815,288; male 11,203,723)
15-64 years: 60% (female 18,723,772; male 19,391,037)
65 years and over: 5% (female 1,764,363; male 1,507,343)

Population growth rate: 1.97% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 25.33 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.64 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 45.6 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 71.48 years
male: 69.11 years
female: 73.96 years

Total fertility rate: 3.12 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20%

Religions: Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2% (Christian and Jews)

Languages: Turkish (official), Kurdish, Arabic

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 79%
male: 90%
female: 68%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Turkey
conventional short form: Turkey

Type: republican parliamentary democracy

Capital: Ankara

Independence: 29 October 1923 (successor state to the Ottoman Empire)

Constitution: 7 November 1982


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $305.2 billion

National product real growth rate: -5%

National product per capita: $4,910

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 106%

Unemployment rate: 12.6%

Electricity:
capacity: 18,710,000 kW
production: 71 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,079 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Pin trading was one of the most popular Olympic sports, with more than 1.2 million pins changing hands during the Games in the Coca Cola Pin Trading Center at Centennial Olympic Park.