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Map of Turkey and seas in and around Turkey. This is a list of islands of Turkey. There are around 500 islands and islets in Turkey. These islands are located in the Aegean Sea, Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, and Turkish lakes. The Turkish words for island/islands are ada/adalar.
The Princes' Islands (Turkish: Prens Adaları; the word "princes" is plural, because the name means "Islands of the Princes", Greek: Πριγκηπονήσια, Pringiponisia), officially just Adalar (English: Islands); alternatively the Princes' Archipelago; is an archipelago off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey, in the Sea of Marmara.
Aegean Sea Islands map showing island groups Satellite view of the Aegean Sea and Islands. The Aegean Islands [a] are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Pages in category "Islands of Turkey" The following 98 pages are in this category, out of ...
' Heavenly Island ') since 29 July 1970, [3] [4] is the largest island of Turkey, located in Çanakkale Province. It is located in the north-northeastern Aegean Sea, at the entrance of Saros Bay, and has the westernmost point of Turkey (Cape İncirburnu). Imbros has an area of 286.8 km 2 (110.7 sq mi), [5] and has some wooded areas. [6]
The Mediterranean Sea basin is supposed to host more than 10,000 islands, [1] with 2,217 islands larger than 0.01 km 2. [2] The two main island countries in the region are Malta and Cyprus , while other countries with islands in the Mediterranean Sea include Albania , Algeria , Croatia , Egypt , France , Greece , Israel , Italy , Lebanon ...
The Dodecanese (UK: / ˌ d oʊ d ɪ k ə ˈ n iː z /, US: / d oʊ ˌ d ɛ k ə ˈ n iː z /; Greek: Δωδεκάνησα, Dodekánisa [ðoðeˈkanisa], lit. ' twelve islands '; Turkish: On İki Ada) are a group of 15 larger and 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Turkey's Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited.
The Sea of Marmara is named after the largest island on its south side, called Marmara Island because it is rich in marble (Greek μάρμᾰρον, mármaron 'marble'). [ 2 ] In classical antiquity , it was known as the Propontis , from the Greek words pro 'before' and pontos 'sea', reflecting the fact that the Ancient Greeks used to sail ...