Geography & Climate

The area of Turkey constitutes 780.000 km2 and the country is therefore as large as Germany and United Kingdom together. Of this, approximately 3% is located on the European continent and the rest is in Asia minor.
More than half of Turkey is on the coast. Land borders are with Greece,Bulgaria, Armenia,Georgia,Syria, Iran and Iraq.
Because of its size, Turkey has several climate zones. Everything from extremely hot summers to cold winters and rainy periods are experienced here.
The plateaus of Anatolia offer very hot and dry summers while the winter is bitterly cold. Along the Mediterranean the climate is subtropical which means hot summers and mild winters.