Did you know???

• Around 5,000 languages are currently spoken in the world (an exact count is hard to give because even linguists don't always agree as to whether two languages are different or if one is a dialect of the other). About 4% of them are spoken by 96% of Earth's population.
• India has a bill of rights for cows.
• The landlocked country of Kyrgyzstan is surrounded by four other landlocked states, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikstan, and Afghanistan, making it the only double-landlocked country in the world.
• The shortest national anthem is the Japanese national anthem, which is only four lines long. The longest is the Greek national anthem, which is 158 verses long.
• Singapore is the largest country without any farms (approximately 650 square kilometres). As well, the world's three smallest countries (Vatican City, Monaco, and Nauru) don't have any farms either.
• The country of Indonesia comprises over 17,000 islands.
• The official president of North Korea is still Kim Il-Sung, even though he died in 1994
• India is the world's second most populous country, with a population of more than 1,000,000,000. The world's third most populous country, the United States, has a population less than 30% of that of India.
• In New Zealand, there are four sheep for each person.
• England and Portugal have never been at war with each other. It is probably the longest unbroken peace (Portugal was created over 850 years ago) between any two nations in the world.
• Among countries larger than 1000 square kilometres, Bangladesh has the highest population density, with more than 910 people per square kilometer.
• The Spratley Islands, a group of over 100 small, uninhabited islands or reefs in the middle of the South China Sea, are claimed by five different countries.
  
  Source: www.sentex.net/~ajy/facts/countries.html

this is amazing! I never knew that Turkey was this special:):) P.S=my fathers originally turkish!! yay

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İstanbul

Interesting facts about TURKEY

• Noah’s Ark landed on Mount Ararat (Agri Dagi) in Eastern Turkey
• Turks introduced coffee to Europe.
• Turkey is the only country in the world that owns a SEA. Because of their great sizes normally seas are shared up to a certain mileage by countries but BOSPHORUS Sea is completely surrounded by Turkey.
• BOSPHORUS also has two bridges which connects two continents EUROPE and ASIA. Hence this unique thing gives Turkey the distinction of being the only country in the world on two continents.
• Istanbul has the historical building of Sirkeci Train Station. This was the last stop of the Simplon-Orient Express - "kings of trains and train of kings" - between Paris and Constantinople (Istanbul) from 1883 to 1977. Agatha Christie was one of the passengers of this famous train.
• Tradition in Turkey says that a stranger at one’s doorstep is considered "God’s guest" for at least three days.
• Writing was first used by people in ancient Anatolia. The first clay tablets in the ruins of Assyrian Karum (Merchant Colony) date back to 1950 B.C
• Cherry was first introduced to Europe from Giresun (Northern Turkey)
• Turkey has hundreds beaches and marinas which have the "Blue Flag" (A European award for the best clean water) on the Mediterranean and Aegean.
• The number of species of flowers in Turkey is approximately 9,000, of which 3,000 are endemic
  Source: www.allaboutturkey.com

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TURKEY

Location: Turkey's geographical location has made it the land bridge between Europe and Asia (3% of Turkey lies in Europe; the other 97% (Anatolia) lies in Asia).; the resultant ethnic mix has produced blond-haired, blue-eyed Turks, red-haired green-eyed Turks, brown-haired hazel-eyed Turks, and black-haired brown-eyed Turks. What makes a Turk a Turk is his choice of Turkish as his primary language.Turkey is bordered on three sides by water: on the north by the Black Sea, on the west by the Aegean Sea, and on the south by the Mediterranean Sea. 20.2 million hectares of land in Turkey is covered by forest.