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Turkey Country Data

Area: total: 780,580 sq km
land: 770,760 sq km
water: 9,820 sq km

Climate: temperate hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters harsher in interior

Terrain: high central plateau [Anatolia] narrow coastal plain several mountain ranges

Natural resources: coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestite [strontium], emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite, pumice, pyrites [sulfur], clay, arable land, hydropower

Population: 71,892,807 [July 2008 est.]

Age structure: 0-14 years: 24.4% [male 8,937,515/female 8,608,375]
15-64 years: 68.6% [male 25,030,793/female 24,253,312]
65 years and over: 7% [male 2,307,236/female 2,755,576] [2008 est.]

Nationality: noun: Turk[s]
adjective: Turkish

Ethnic groups: Turkish 80%, Kurdish 20% [estimated]

Languages: Turkish [official], Kurdish, Dimli [or Zaza], Azeri, Kabardian
note: there is also a substantial Gagauz population in the European part of Turkey

Capital: name: Ankara
geographic coordinates: 39 56 N, 32 52 E
time difference: UTC+2 [7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time]
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March ends last Sunday in October

National holiday: Republic Day, 29 October [1923]

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 8.9%
industry: 28.3%
services: 62.8% [2007 est.]

Labor force: 23.53 million
note: about 1.2 million Turks work abroad [2007 est.]

Budget: revenues: $145.5 billion
expenditures: $156.1 billion [2007 est.]

Agriculture - products: tobacco, cotton, grain, olives, sugar beets, pulse, citrus livestock

Industries: textiles, food processing, autos, electronics, mining [coal, chromite, copper, boron], steel, petroleum, construction, lumber, paper

Exports: $115.3 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Exports - commodities: apparel, foodstuffs, textiles, metal manufactures, transport equipment

Exports - partners: Germany 11.3%, UK 8%, Italy 7.9%, US 6%, France 5.4%, Spain 4.4% [2006]

Imports: $162.1 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Imports - commodities: machinery, chemicals, semi-finished goods, fuels, transport equipment

Imports - partners: Russia 12.8%, Germany 10.6%, China 6.9%, Italy 6.2%, France 5.2%, US 4.5%, Iran 4% [2006]

Currency (code): Turkish lira [TRY] old Turkish lira [TRL] before 1 January 2005

Exchange rates: Turkish liras per US dollar - 1.319 [2007], 1.4286 [2006], 1.3436 [2005], 1.4255 [2004], 1.5009 [2003]
note: on 1 January 2005 the old Turkish lira [TRL] was converted to new Turkish lira [TRY] at a rate of 1,000,000 old to 1 new Turkish lira

Airports: 117 [2007]

Railways: total: 8,697 km
standard gauge: 8,697 km 1.435-m gauge [1,920 km electrified] [2006]

Merchant marine: total: 565 ships [1000 GRT or over] 4,663,353 GRT/7,039,492 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 96, cargo 262, chemical tanker 58, combination ore/oil 1, container 30, liquefied gas 7, passenger 4, passenger/cargo 48, petroleum tanker 32, refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 25, specialized tanker 1
foreign-owned: 8 [China 1, Cyprus 2, Germany 1, Italy 3, UAE 1]
registered in other countries: 470 [Albania 1, Antigua and Barbuda 7, Bahamas 5, Belize 11, Cambodia 20, Comoros 8, Cyprus 1, Dominica 9, Georgia 23, Isle of Man 2, Italy 1, Kiribati 1, North Korea 1, Liberia 7, Malta 143, Marshall Islands 41, Netherlands Antilles 12, Panama 53, Russia 70, Sierra Leone 7, Slovakia 11, St Kitts and Nevis 13, St Vincent and The Grenadines 20, Tuvalu 1, UK 2, unknown 3] [2007]

Ports and terminals: Aliaga, Diliskelesi, Izmir, Kocaeli [Izmit], Mercin Limani, Nemrut Limani

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