Area
Boarders
Climate and Terrain
Elevation
- Total Area: 783,562 sq. kilometers
- Land Area: 769,632 sq. kilometers
- Water Area: 13,930 sq. kilometers
- Size Comparative to U.S. Territory: slightly larger than Texas
Boarders
- Total distance of coastline: 7,200 kilometers
- Bodies of Water which share a border:
- Mediterranean Sea
- Black Sea
- Aegean Sea
- Sea of Marmara
- Total distance of all land boundaries: 2,816 kilometers
- Armenia: 311 kilometers
- Azerbaijan: 17 kilometers
- Bulgaria: 223 kilometers
- Georgia: 273 kilometers
- Greece: 192 kilometers
- Iran: 534 kilometers
- Iraq: 367 kilometers
- Syria: 899 kilometers
Climate and Terrain
- Climate: Temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in interior
- Terrain: high central plateau (Antolia); narrow coastal plain; several mountain ranges
Elevation
- Lowest Point: Mediterranean Sea - 0 meters
- Highest Point: Mount Ararat - 5,166 meters
- Mean: 1,132 meters