Turkey is a big and respectively lush country.It is between 35 and 42 long latitude, and 25 and 44 east longitude. Philadelphia, Tokyo and Beijing are some of the cities around the same latitude as Turkey.
Turkey is divided into 7 geographic regions :
Marmara (Marmara)
Aegean (Ege)
Mediterranean (Akdeniz)
Southeastern (Guney Dogu)
Eastern (Dogu)
Blacksea (Karadeniz)
Central Anatolia (Ic Anadolu)
The total area Turkey covers is about 800.000 sq km ( 774,815 sq km ), and this makes it one of the biggest countries in Europe and the Middle East. The neighbours are Greece and Bulgaria on the norhtwest,Armenia and Georgia on the northeast, Iran and Irak on the southeast and Syria on the south. Of all, the Turkish-Syrian border is the longest.Turkey has no direct border with Russia, but the Black Sea on the north.The other seas that cover Turkey are the Aegean on the west and the Mediterrenean on the south. In other words, Turkey is a huge big peninsula wrapped up by seas on three sides that looks like the head of a horse, as a Turkish poet has put it.