Istanbul Turkish: İstanbul is the largest city in Turkey

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Istanbul Turkish: İstanbul is the largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. Istanbul is a transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling the Bosphorus strait between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its commercial and historical centre lies on the European side and about a third of its population lives on the Asian side of Eurasia. With a population of million, the city forms the largest European urban agglomeration as well as the largest in the Middle East, and the fifth-largest city proper in the world. Istanbul's area of 5,343 square kilometers (2,063 sq mi) is coterminous with Istanbul Province.

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