Geography
Posted by turkeytips1 on October 7, 2008
Turkey is bordered to the north-east of the Black Sea and Georgia, in the east to Iran, in the southeast of Iraq, in the south to Syria and the Mediterranean in the west to the Aegean Sea and the north-west Greece and Bulgaria. Asia Minor (or Anatolia) covers 97% of the country and lies on a large, broad peninsula from east to west and 1650 km wide from north to south, 650 km long. The Pontic mountain chain in the north and the Taurus mountains in the south enclose the central plateau of Anatolia and then go into the huge mountainous area in the east of the country. Here emerge the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
