Which countries border Turkey?
🇹🇷 Turkey shares land borders with 8 countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq and Syria. The border with Azerbaijan is a technical border.
Neighbours of Turkey
- 🇦🇲 Armenia · 4 neighbours
- 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan technical · 5 neighbours
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria · 5 neighbours
- 🇬🇪 Georgia · 4 neighbours
- 🇬🇷 Greece · 4 neighbours
- 🇮🇷 Iran · 7 neighbours
- 🇮🇶 Iraq · 6 neighbours
- 🇸🇾 Syria · 5 neighbours
⚠️ Turkey – Azerbaijan is a technical border: only through Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan exclave.
How far can you travel from Turkey by land?
Hopping one land border at a time, Turkey connects to 129 countries. The farthest is Lesotho, 10 borders away:
🇹🇷 Turkey → 🇸🇾 Syria → 🇮🇱 Israel → 🇪🇬 Egypt → 🇸🇩 Sudan → 🇨🇫 Central African Republic → 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo → 🇹🇿 Tanzania → 🇲🇿 Mozambique → 🇿🇦 South Africa → 🇱🇸 Lesotho
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