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- CAPITAL
- Ankara
- POPULATION
- 70,413,958 (July 2006 est.)
- AREA
- total: 780,580 sq km
land: 770,760 sq km
water: 9,820 sq km
slightly larger than Texas - GOVERNMENT
- republican parliamentary democracy
- MONEY
- Turkish lira (YTL); old Turkish lira (TRL) before 1 January 2005
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- CLIMATE
- temperate; hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters; harsher in
interior - LANGUAGES
- Turkish (official), Kurdish, Dimli (or Zaza), Azeri, Kabardian
note: there is also a substantial Gagauz population in the Europe part of Turkey
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