Türkiye
Republic of Türkiye
- Region
- Asia · Western Asia
- Capital
- Ankara
- Population
- 85,878,556 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- Turkish lira (TRY)
- Official languages
- Turkish
- Spoken languages
- Turkish (official), Kurdish, other minority languages
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 783,562 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- EU (candidate country), G20, IMF, NATO, OECD, OIC, SCO (dialogue member), WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Armenia , Azerbaijan , Bulgaria , Georgia , Greece , Iran , Iraq , Syria
Political stability
49 / 100
Economic stability
35 / 100
Population stability
51 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- garments, cars, gold, refined petroleum, vehicle parts/accessories (2023)
- Key imports
- gold, refined petroleum, cars, plastics, natural gas (2023)
- Natural resources
- coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestite (strontium), emery, feldspar
- Critical minerals
- Holds ~70% of world boron reserves.
- Luxury goods
- hand-knotted carpets, gold jewelry
- Primary route
- Bosphorus/Marmara gateways bridging Asia–Europe lanes
- Secondary route
- Middle Corridor rail toward Central Asia and China
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Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.