Country code: TR
Location: southeastern Europe and southwestern
Asia
Area: total: 780,580 sq km (water: 9,820 sq km;
land: 770,760 sq km)
Population: 68,109,469 (July 2003 est.)
Capital: Ankara
Languages: Turkish (official), Kurdish, Arabic,
Armenian, Greek
Currency: Turkish lira
Religions: Muslim 99.8% (mostly Sunni), other 0.2%
Industries: textiles, food processing, autos, mining
(coal, chromite, copper, boron), steel, petroleum, construction,
lumber
Agriculture - products: tobacco, cotton, grain,
olives, sugar beets, pulse, citrus, livestock
Exports - commodities: apparel, foodstuffs, textiles,
metal manufactures, transport equipment
Imports - commodities: machinery, chemicals, semi-finished
goods, fuels, transport equipment