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GeographyLocation: 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: 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
PeoplePopulation: 63,405,526 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
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 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)
Government
Names:
Type: republican parliamentary democracy Capital: Ankara Independence: 29 October 1923 (successor state to the Ottoman Empire) Constitution: 7 November 1982
EconomyNational 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:
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