Turkey map quiz
Explore cities, mountains and waters of Turkey!
Quizzes in this pack
Turkey: cities, mountains, waters.
| Cities | 10 questions |
| Mountains | 4 questions |
| Waters | 5 questions |
Sample questions
- Largest city, spanning two continents across the Bosphorus, former Constantinople
- Answer: Istanbul
- Third-largest city on the Aegean coast, ancient Smyrna, major port and trade fair center
- Answer: İzmir
- Fourth-largest city, first Ottoman capital, at the foot of Mount Uludağ ski resort
- Answer: Bursa
- Southeastern city near Syria, UNESCO City of Gastronomy, famous for baklava and pistachios
- Answer: Gaziantep
- Central Anatolian city, home of the whirling dervishes and Rumi's tomb
- Answer: Konya
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Pontic Mountains
Along Turkey's Black Sea coast
The Pontic Mountains run along Turkey's Black Sea coast, rising steeply from the shore. Their northern slopes get rain almost all year and are covered in forest and tea gardens, and high summer pastures called yaylas are used for grazing.
- Highest point
- Kaçkar, 3,937 m
- Did you know?
- Almost all of Turkey's tea is grown on these slopes, around the town of Rize
Taurus Mountains
Southern Turkey
The Taurus Mountains curve across southern Turkey for about 1,500 km, from the Aegean side to the upper Euphrates. They separate the Mediterranean coast from the Anatolian plateau, and in the Aladağlar, one of their highest parts, limestone peaks rise above 3,700 m.
- Highest point
- Kızılkaya, 3,771 m
- Did you know?
- The Cilician Gates, a narrow pass through the range, was used by armies from Alexander the Great to the crusaders
Zagros Mountains
Western Iran, toward Iraq and Turkey
The Zagros Mountains run about 1,500 km through western Iran, from the borders of Turkey and Iraq down to the Persian Gulf. They are made of folded rock layers that look like waves from the air, and nomadic peoples such as the Bakhtiari and the Qashqai still move their flocks between valleys with the seasons.
- Highest point
- Dena, 4,409 m
- Did you know?
- Some of the earliest farming in the world began in the Zagros foothills about 10,000 years ago, when people first kept goats
Lake Van
Eastern Turkey
Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey, high on the eastern Anatolian plateau. Its water is salty and strongly alkaline, so few fish can live in it, and on the island of Akdamar stands the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Cross, built more than a thousand years ago.
- Area
- About 3,750 km²
- Did you know?
- The Van cat, a white cat that likes to swim, comes from this region
Black Sea
Between southeastern Europe and Turkey
The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Turkey, joined to the Mediterranean through the Bosporus at Istanbul. Big rivers such as the Danube and the Dnieper flow into it, and old towns such as Amasra in Turkey sit on its rocky shores.
- Area
- About 436,000 km²
- Greatest depth
- About 2,200 m
- Did you know?
- Below about 150 m its water has no oxygen, so ancient shipwrecks on the bottom are unusually well kept
Aegean Sea
Between Greece and Turkey
The Aegean Sea lies between Greece and Turkey and is dotted with thousands of islands, among them the Cyclades with their white villages, such as Mykonos and Santorini. Ancient Greek civilisation grew up around its shores and islands.
- Area
- About 214,000 km²
- Did you know?
- In Greek myth the sea is named after King Aegeus, who threw himself into it believing his son Theseus was dead
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
