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Marmara
Straits, historic cities and the natural starting point for many first journeys.
EXPLORE BY INTENTION
Find your way in.
Each guide is edited for decisions, not endless scrolling: what is essential, what earns another day, and what to keep for a longer trip. Choose a pin on the map below, or scroll to browse by region — every destination shown is a guide that's actually ready to use.
TÜRKİYE · A RICHER WAY TO TRAVEL
First trip?
Choose your first anchor.
The four guides most first visits are built around. Take one, then branch out by region below.
Photo: Arild Vågen · License: CC BY-SA 3.0Istanbul
Sixteen centuries as a capital
5 days suggested · Open guide →
Photo: Feridun F. Alkaya · License: CC0 1.0Cappadocia
Refuge cut from volcanic rock
4 days suggested · Open guide →SEVEN REGIONS · DIFFERENT RHYTHMS
Türkiye changes as you cross it.
Start with one place, then follow the landscape. Every published destination remains here, but no longer arrives as one equal-weight wall of cards.
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Aegean
Ancient places, market towns and a coast that invites a slower route.
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Mediterranean
Mountain-backed bays, old harbours and routes made for the open road.
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Central Anatolia
Wide plateaus, layered cities and Cappadocia at the heart of the route.
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Black Sea
Forest roads, changing weather and journeys shaped by the mountains.
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Southeastern Türkiye
Stone cities, generous tables and stories that reach deep into Anatolia.
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Eastern Türkiye
Longer distances, dramatic landscapes and journeys worth planning with care.
Türkiye, by the numbers
Five facts, not a pitch.
Each figure names its source. Time-sensitive statistics are reviewed separately from the country atlas.
- 22
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- including Sardis, added in 2025
- 81
- provinces, seven regions
- from the Black Sea coast to the Southeast
- 8,000+
- km of coastline
- across four seas — Black Sea, Marmara, Aegean, Mediterranean
- 52.78M
- foreign visitors in 2025
- a record year, per the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
- 11,000+
- years since Göbekli Tepe was raised
- the oldest known monumental architecture on earth
A different way in
Themed guides
The classic loop: Istanbul, Cappadocia, Ephesus
Nine days, three anchors, two long travel legs — the route most first trips to Türkiye settle on, paced the way the planner actually paces it. Every place below has its own full guide; every travel leg has a verified route page.
See the map →The turquoise coast: Fethiye, Kaş, Antalya
Eight days down the Lycian shore — Fethiye, Kaş & Kalkan, Antalya — with no long travel legs at all: every hop is a coastal drive, so every day is a full day. Each place below has its own guide; both hops have verified route pages.
See the map →Türkiye's Christian heritage
Twenty places across fifteen cities: apostles' birthplaces and burial churches, three of the Seven Churches of Revelation, Armenian and Syriac cathedrals still in use, and domes that have been church, mosque, and museum in turn. Each one already has its own guide — this page is the map that ties them together.
See the map →