Türkiye: Capital, Population, Currency and Facts

Key facts

Capital: Ankara
Region: Asia, Western Asia
Population: 85,878,556 (2025)
Area: 780,580 km²
Currency: Turkish lira (TRY)
Languages: Turkish, Kurdish, Dimli (individual language), Azerbaijani, Avaric
Calling code: +90
Internet domain: .tr
ISO codes: TR, TUR, 792
Time zone: UTC+3:00
United Nations: Member state
Postal code pattern: ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)

Land and position

Türkiye covers about 780,580 square kilometres. By area it ranks 38th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Mozambique and a little larger than Chile. It shares a land border with 8 neighbours: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Iraq, Iran, Syria. Its centre lies at about 39° north, 35° east, in the northern hemisphere.

Neighbours

People

About 85.9 million people live in Türkiye (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 18th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 1 percent of the world's people. On average there are 110 people to each square kilometre. About 89 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 77 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Turkish, Kurdish, Dimli (individual language), Azerbaijani, Avaric. A person from Türkiye is called Turkish.

Money and economy

The currency is the Turkish lira (code TRY, symbol ₺). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 1.6 trillion (2025), which is about US$ 18,599 for each person (2025).

Time

Türkiye uses one time zone, UTC+3:00 (Europe/Istanbul). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.

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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.

Largest cities

City	People
Istanbul	15,701,602
Ankara	3,517,182
Bursa	3,101,833
İzmir	2,938,292
Gaziantep	2,222,415
Diyarbakır	1,833,684

City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.

More in Western Asia

Bahrain, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar. See the whole region.

Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.