About Turkish and Turkey Extinct: no Family: Altaic Branch: Turkic Continent: Asia Country: Turkey Region: Spoken throughout Turkey as first or second language. Also spoken in 35 other countries including Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Netherlands, Romania, Russia (Asia), Serbia and Montenegro, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA, Uzbekistan. Turkish Native Population: 74,887,733 in Turkey (2008). Population total all countries: 80,625,794 (est.). Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Uzbekistan, Germany, Holland. Countries Where Official: Turkey Three Letter Code: TRK Alternative Names: Türkçe, Türkisch, Anatolian Some other Statistics: * Full name: Republic of Turkey - (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti) * Capital: Ankara * Largest City: İstanbul * Population (All): 75.8 million (UN, 2010). Half of population is below age 29.7 yrs. of age. * Area: 779,452 sq km (300,948 sq miles) * Major Language: Turkish * Major religion: Islam (but legally Turkey is a Secular State) * Life Expectancy: 71 years (men), 74 years (women) - [Source: Index Mundi - 2009] * Monetary Unit: Turkish Lira - (Türk Lirası - TL) * Main Exports: Clothing and textiles, fruit and vegetables, iron and steel, motor vehicles and machinery, fuels and oils * GNI per capita: US $13,710 (World Bank, 2011) * Internet Domain: .tr * International Dialling Code: +90 * Communications (Wikipedia): As of June 2010, there were 35,000,000 internet users in Turkey, which ranked 15th in the world while as of 2009, there were 2,961,000 internet hosts in the country, which ranked 27th in the world. As of 2008, there were 17,502,000 operational main line telephones in Turkey, which ranked 18th in the world while there were 65,824,000 registered cell phones in the country, which ranked 15th in the world during the same year
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