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Countries Bordering Turkey

All Turkey's neighbors have fallen into the sea! Guess their names to bring them back.
Quiz by Sonko
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Last updated: September 29, 2018
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First submittedJune 28, 2012
Times taken95,312
Average score87.5%
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Border length
Country
822 km
Syria
499 km
Iran
311 km
Iraq
268 km
Armenia
252 km
Georgia
240 km
Bulgaria
206 km
Greece
9 km
Azerbaijan
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Level 57
Oct 28, 2012
Love this quiz its great and really mindbobling!!! weird that im going ton turkey tomorrow!! 8/8
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Level 35
Nov 6, 2012
I'm glad you like it! Have fun in Turkey!:)
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Level 15
May 26, 2021
yes awesome quiz!
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Level 30
May 7, 2014
Almost didn't get Bulgaria although I am currently reading a book about Byzantium and their struggles with the Bulgarians ...
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Level 68
May 20, 2014
You make good quizzes Sonko!
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Level 35
Jul 8, 2014
Thanks!!:D
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Level 24
May 27, 2014
Probably you should add Cyprus, because the northern part of the island is turkish, or under turkish dominion. But it was fun!
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Level 35
Jul 8, 2014
Cyprus has a Greek part and a Turkish part yes, but that's still the country Cyprus.
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Level 82
Oct 6, 2016
and officially, the north didn't join Turkey but declared independence, which Turkey recognized
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Level 75
Oct 19, 2016
I would say there's a strong argument for adding Cyprus. Or at least doing the standard JetPunk thing and adding it as an already entered answer
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Level 71
Oct 21, 2023
No there isn't.
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Level 72
Oct 21, 2023
7 years late to the rebuttal.
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Level 66
Aug 29, 2018
You shouldn't, The "Turkish part" is separated by the UN Buffer zone.
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Level 75
Mar 18, 2020
Just because there are Somalis in Kenya doesn't mean that Somalia borders Uganda.
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Level 68
Oct 31, 2023
You shouldn't. First, it's an illegal occupation, that only Turkey itself has officially recognised. Second, even Turkey doesn't claim it borders Cyprus, as it pretends that "Northern Cyprus" is a sovereign state.
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Level 66
Feb 15, 2015
I'm going to Turkey 6/9/15.
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Level 82
Nov 1, 2023
How was it?
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Level 66
Jul 26, 2016
Azerbaijan does not border Turkey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Level 82
Oct 6, 2016
it does, zoom in on the little western part
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Level 92
Oct 19, 2016
Yes it does, for about 8 km along the Aras river.
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Level 84
Oct 19, 2016
Plattitude is right. The Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan is southwest of Armenia. It has a tiny border with Turkey at the Aras River.
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Level 41
Oct 21, 2023
The border is 16.9 km not 9
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Level 84
Oct 20, 2016
Learned something new - Azerbaijan has an enclave west of Armenia, that does in fact border Turkey!
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Level 57
Dec 4, 2016
Actually, it's an exclave.
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Level 82
Dec 4, 2016
It's not universally recognized to be part of Azerbaijan.
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Level 82
Dec 4, 2016
^ yeah, Armenians aren't awfully happy about it, but that's it
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Level 39
Jun 15, 2021
@kalbahamut It is recognised as a part of Azerbaijan.
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Level 41
Oct 21, 2023
It’s 16.9 km not 9 km
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Level 51
Feb 3, 2021
Azerbaijan borders Turkey jadjandlemur
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Level 81
Oct 18, 2016
Very nice quiz!
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Level 35
Dec 12, 2016
Thanks man!
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Level 56
Dec 4, 2016
The Caspian Sea is connected to ocean. It has become a true sea once more! Rejoice!
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Level 43
Mar 16, 2022
And the Aral sea is dead :(
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Level 51
Dec 4, 2016
Cyprus is an island
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Level 82
Dec 4, 2016
well Cyprus does border Northern Cyprus which is basically an extension of Turkey. Convenient place for them to keep most of their casinos and brothels.
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Level 60
Dec 4, 2016
But Northern Cyprus declared independence. It's not like it became a province of Turkey.
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Level 82
Dec 4, 2016
Quizzes would become awfully complicated if we included all cases like this. Of course de facto Northern Cyprus is very closely linked to Turkey, but nobody recognizes it as such, not even themselves. The same with Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno Karabakh, but unlike Crimea for example.
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Level 82
Nov 6, 2018
Gamer: that's not really what happened, though. In the 1970s Greek partisans attempted to annex Cyprus to Greece. In response, Turkey invaded Northern Cyprus and expelled Greeks from that part of the island. Currently, Turkey is the *only* country in the world that recognizes Northern Cyprus. The "country" is entirely dependent on Turkey for its economy and military and is essentially a puppet satellite state of Turkey. The United Nations considers Northern Cyprus to be a part of the Republic of Cyprus under Turkish occupation.
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Level 39
Jun 14, 2021
@kalbahamut, you are giving wrong and false information. Yes, Northern Cyprus is economically (almost) dependent to Turkey, but it isn’t a province, dependency etc. of Turkey. Turkey recognises Northern Cyprus as a country, not a dependency. And also UN doesn’t consider Northern Cyprus as a part of Turkey. And Northern Cyprus is not under the occupation of Turkey. Even some Northern Cypriots hate Turkey. UN considers Northern Cyprus as an unrecognised state, part of Republic of Cyprus.

(Extra information: There is a United Nations Buffer Zone between “two Cyprus”.)

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Level 71
Oct 21, 2023
Northern Cyprus IS occupied by Turkey because the latter has troops stationed there since 1974.
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Level 82
Dec 1, 2022
I think I responded to this comment already... but looks like my response was deleted? sigh. Not that surprising. But, whatever, I forget what I pulled up to support my case but, no, I'm not giving wrong or false information. I never said TRNC was a province of Turkey. I said what I said. Which is accurate. I remember doing some research into TRNC politics and citing some interesting details about various referendums and such... it wasn't inflammatory... certainly did not break the rules of the site... the stuff I post that gets deleted literally for no reason on here is so annoying. That I post a lot of comments is not a good excuse either.
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Level 63
Dec 4, 2016
I did it with 1:45 left.
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Level 68
Dec 4, 2016
Nice quiz! On my big OE (overseas experience) from NZ, Turkey was may favourite country.
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Level 35
Dec 12, 2016
Glad you liked it!:D
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Level 56
Dec 4, 2016
Sonko, I wonder what Kalbahamut's problem is with you. In almost every quiz that you have created he is criticising you and the quiz. Vreselijk kinderachtig als je het mij vraagt.
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Level 60
Dec 4, 2016
What do you mean "every quiz"? Kal has commented on 4 quizzes out of 21 Sonko has created. That's 19% of all his quizzes, so no Kalbahamut hasn't commented on 'almost all of Sonko's quizzes'. Unless commenting on 4 quizzes equals 'almost all of Sonko's quizzes', which then seems quite ridiculous.
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Level 35
Dec 12, 2016
Haha, ik heb het gemerkt ja!
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Level 37
Apr 4, 2018
Sonko and Jordaan. I agree with Gamer 1162, Kalbahamut frequently comments and comments... and comments. But that is NOT the case in this instance. As much as I often disagree with him, it is unfair to attribute to him something which he has not done. Also, it is impolite

to have an exchange in a language other than that of the quiz. (Dutch is one of the languages I speak, so I understood your exchange with each other).

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Level 48
Feb 23, 2019
Idea for new quiz: Quizzes that Kalbahamut has commented on...
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Level 89
Mar 18, 2020
I haven't seen a single comment of his on this quiz that criticizes either the quiz or the quiz creator. Unless it was already removed in the time since you've left this comment, but even then, I highly doubt he would make a criticism without a given reason.
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Level 31
Dec 31, 2017
i love these bordering quizzes where they are underwater :)
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Level 47
Sep 1, 2019
Maybe one day Kurdistan...
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Level 40
Mar 2, 2021
That day is far, far from today.
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Level 15
Jun 2, 2022
keep dreaming :)
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Level 66
Sep 26, 2019
Weird how bulgaria is guessed less than azerbaijan
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Level 35
Mar 18, 2020
Probably because most people guess Armenia+Georgia+Azerbaijan right after eachother ;)
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Level 66
Mar 18, 2020
I do link armenia and georgia. But azerbaijan is stored with the stans in my mind :)

here today as "punishment" for forgetting turkey in the quiz countries with most amount of countries within 100km (I think I missed it with the 200km aswell)

btw bulgaria is still low ;)

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Level 52
Mar 18, 2020
Good quiz!! ;)
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Level 74
Mar 19, 2020

@sonko don't get offended, this is not critisism towards you, but to the Quizmaster

what i want to say is, that i cannot fully understand how so many boring quizzes can be featured, where you only need to know the locations of huge countries on the world map, yet great quizzes, I'm not saying mine are so brill, but there are definitely some that are more engaging than well quizzes like this one or basically all of Jerry928's quizzes, which are simply the closest countries to every damn country on the planet

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Level 35
Mar 20, 2020
Fair point, I totally get what you're saying. There's definitely more engaging quizzes than this one.

I do think that most people here tend to prefer simple and country related quizes.The Quizmaster simply features what the masses want.

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Level 32
Mar 19, 2020
Me like!
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Level 28
Mar 22, 2020
Good quiz
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Level 31
May 6, 2020
Loved it
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Level 39
Apr 10, 2021
Nice quiz! Greetings from Turkey!
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Level 20
Apr 24, 2021
:D
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Level 39
May 18, 2021
I didn't do this but I bet Turks [purposely] forgot to type in Greece...
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Level 39
Jun 14, 2021
I am Turk and no, we didn’t... Problems are about with politics and politicians. Not the people.
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Level 71
Jul 5, 2021
Even though they have had a lot of complicated relations historically and practice different religions, Turks and Greeks seem to have a lot in common culturally (personally, it seems similar to the relationship between India and Pakistan). I also read a comment from Kalbahamut on another quiz that Turks, Greeks, and Slavs have all intermarried for generations, leading to genetic similarities in the region as well.
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Level 39
Jul 24, 2021
Yeah.
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Level 49
Aug 6, 2021
FUN FACT: Each of these countries uses a different writing system, and none of them are the latin alphabet!!!!
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Level 62
Oct 12, 2021
That’s not quite entirely accurate, unfortunately. Azerbaijani *is* written using the Latin script (at least, it is in Azerbaijan itself!).

All the rest is entirely accurate, though.

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Level 34
Mar 15, 2022
I got all with 0:05 seconds left, surprised that Azerbaijan borders Turkey
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Level 62
Mar 15, 2022
Lurkey turkey
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Level 30
Mar 19, 2022
Easy peasy. I couldn't see the azerbaijan border

Got in 8 seconds

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Level 56
Apr 20, 2022
Türkiye
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Level 82
Dec 1, 2022
Do you go to the Turkish language quizzes and tell them to stop using Amerika Birleşik Devletleri?
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Level 33
May 13, 2022
I've never realized how bad of a spot Turkey is in, surrounded by Iran, Iraq, and Syria.

And also why doesn't Cyprus count, Turkey owns Northern Cyprus?

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Level 15
Jun 2, 2022
Northern Cyprus is not recognised, therefore it is not considered a neighbouring country.
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Level 53
Oct 21, 2023
It is only recognised by Turkey, but even Turkey regards it as an independent country, not a part of Turkey; therefore no country on Earth claims the existence of a Turkish-Cypriote border
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Level 71
Oct 21, 2023
With your logic then Russia borders your beloved Ukraine along Crimea and Donbass.
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Level 50
Aug 12, 2022
I just love Türkiye, and also, oh noo, I just sunk about more than 100 million people into the sea cause of my lack of memory
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Level 40
Feb 10, 2023
if you don't do Greece you know no history
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Level 59
Feb 17, 2023
More countries border Turkey than I thought.
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Level 35
Aug 13, 2023
really enjoy quizzes like these!!!
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Level 53
Oct 21, 2023
The Turkey-Azerbaijan border is actually 17 km long
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Level 41
Oct 21, 2023
Yes 16.9 km
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Level 47
Oct 22, 2023
Why does Syria have Lebanon??

I may be dumb...

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Level 60
Oct 23, 2023
I thought the same thing, but Lebanon is below Syria on the coast with the Medeterranean.
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Level 20
Jan 4, 2024
100% it was easy
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Level 40
Mar 27, 2024
Did you get it in 11 seconds?