Turkey (Türkiye), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in southeastern Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. Separating Anatolia and Thrace are the Sea of Marmara and the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, which are commonly reckoned to delineate the boundary between Europe and Asia, thereby making Turkey transcontinental.
