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Turkey is one of the largest countries in Europe with 774,815 km2 land area. The shape of the territory can be approximated to a rectangle, 1565 km long in the east-west direction and 650 km in the north-south direction (Figure 23.1).
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Mentes, G., Turel, A., Gunal, T. (1993). Turkey: Coping with High Transit Demands through Entrepreneurship. In: Salomon, I., Bovy, P., Orfeuil, JP. (eds) A Billion Trips a Day. Transportation Research, Economics and Policy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8118-9_23
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