Edens of Turkey

The borders of Turkey have a total length of about 9,850 km, of which 7,200 km from the sea bounds. In the west of Turkey, the Aegean Sea, in the south of the Mediterranean in the north and the Black Sea. In addition, the Turkey with eight neighboring countries, a limit with a total length of 2,648 km. In the north-west it is bordered to Greece (206 km border) and Bulgaria (240 km), in the north-east of Georgia (252 km), Armenia (268 km), Azerbaijan (exclave and autonomous Republic of Czechoslovakia Nachi Evan, 9 km), on the east by Iran (499 km) and the south of Iraq (352 km) and Syria (822 km).

Especially the north of Turkey is one of the most seismic regions of the world and has in recent years repeatedly shaken by earthquakes. Because a certain chronological East-West series of earthquakes in northern Turkey determine, experts estimated that in the foreseeable future even İstanbul by a large quake could be shaken. The last major quake in the province of Kocaeli were less than 100 km from Istanbul.