Geography

GEOGRAPHY

Turkey has not only a very beautiful and large geography, but it is also very important to itself and many other countries around it.

Turkey sits between southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, with that portion of Turkey west of the Bosporus is geographically part of Europe. Turkey also borders the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Georgia, and borders the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria.

Turkey contains the only water connection between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea, called the Bosporus. The Bosporus is where the Black Sea, which sits next to countries including Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey itself, connects to the Aegean Sea, and then the Mediterranean Sea. The Bosporus is one of the most geologically important areas within some distance of Turkey. Its importance of being a shipping lane has been of great help to those countries that border the Black Sea.