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Istanbul [b] is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.It is considered the country's economic, cultural and historic capital.
Rank City Country Metropolitan Population City Population Image 1 Cairo Egypt 20,439,541: 9,500,000: 2 Tehran Iran 17,672,000: 9,134,000: 3 Istanbul Turkey 15,519,267
Map of the Middle East between North Africa, Southern Europe, Central Asia, and Southern Asia Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) [note 1] is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
4.1 Location map templates. 4.2 Creating new map definitions. Toggle the table of contents. Module: Location map/data/Turkey Istanbul. 15 languages.
Map of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), designed in 1422 by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti. This is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only surviving map that predates the Turkish conquest of 1453. The Bosporus is visible along the right-hand side of the map, wrapping vertically around the historic city.
The Middle East–North Africa region comprises 20 countries and territories with an estimated Muslim population of 315 million or about 23% of the world's Muslim population. [47] The term "MENA" is often defined in part in relation to majority-Muslim countries located in the region, although several nations in the region are not Muslim ...
Name used in the default map caption; image = Turkey Istanbul location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 41.619888 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 40.796666 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 27.941666 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = 29. ...
Baklava, probably developed in the imperial kitchens of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul Republic Day celebrations on the Bosporus in Istanbul Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Art in Istanbul Istanbul in art / Paintings of Istanbul; Public art in Istanbul Akdeniz; The Feeler