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Turkey landmarks quiz: guess where 28 photos were taken
The 28 places in Turkey from the game, with their photos and facts. Play a round first, then read about them below.
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The round is five photos. Look at the photo, tap the map, see the distance, then go to the next one.
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Fairy-chimney rock formations and hot-air balloons at dawn.
Photo: Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr) / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A vast domed basilica turned mosque on the Bosphorus shore.
Photo: Arild Vågen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A six-minaret Ottoman mosque facing the Hagia Sophia.
Photo: Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Roman city ruin fronted by the Library of Celsus.
Photo: Benh LIEU SONG / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
White travertine terraces of mineral-rich hot springs.
Photo: Slyronit / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 3,917-metre volcano towering over Kayseri in central Anatolia.
Photo: Abdurrahman Çam / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A twin-peaked volcano on the edge of Cappadocia.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Turkey's fourth largest lake, a turquoise basin in the Taurus mountains.
Photo: Ingo Mehling / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A stone house on a hill above Ephesus, believed by some to be Mary's last home.
Photo: Mfryc / CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
An Ionian Greek city laid out on a perfect grid, with a temple of Athena.
Photo: Ken and Nyetta / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An Ionian Greek city whose harbour silted up, leaving its theatre inland.
Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jiuguangw/ / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A summit ringed by giant stone heads from a 1st-century BC royal tomb.
Photo: Mkrc85 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Bosphorus palace of the last Ottoman sultans, where Atatürk died.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Turkey's capital on the Anatolian plateau, with Atatürk's mausoleum on a hill.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A former Ottoman capital near the Greek border, crowned by the Selimiye Mosque.
Photo: Jorge Franganillo / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Black Sea port and former Byzantine empire, with the cliff-hugging Sumela monastery nearby.
Photo: Bertramz / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Phrygian capital where Alexander cut the Gordian knot.
Photo: Stipich Béla / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
A 13th-century mosque and hospital with the most elaborate stone portals in Anatolia.
Photo: R Prazeres / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Turkey's Mediterranean resort city, with a Roman harbour walled by the old town.
Photo: Saffron Blaze / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lycian rock tombs and a Roman theatre in the town of the original Santa Claus.
Photo: Ingo Mehling / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Turkey's largest island, at the mouth of the Dardanelles, with a rich Greek heritage.
Photo: User:Ggia / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
One of the fastest-flowing rivers in the world, cutting a gorge to the Black Sea.
Photo: EvgenyGenkin / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
A Roman city with a colonnaded street and stadium, where St Paul preached.
Photo: Saffron Blaze / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Turkey's highest peak, the mountain where Noah's Ark is said to have landed.
Photo: Սէրուժ Ուրիշեան (Serouj Ourishian) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Roman spa city above the white travertine terraces of Pamukkale.
Photo: Carole Raddato / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The mosque of Mehmed the Conqueror, built on the site of the Church of the Holy Apostles.
Photo: Moonik / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ankara's largest mosque, built in classical Ottoman style in the 1980s.
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 'Great Mountain' above Bursa, Turkey's most popular ski resort.
Photo: Julian Nyča / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Istanbul is four places on one pin: Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and the Fatih Mosque within 3 km of each other, Dolmabahçe up the Bosphorus. Edirne is 215 km west of it near the Greek border, and Imbros is the island at the mouth of the Dardanelles; those two are the north-western corner. Ankara has the capital itself and the Kocatepe Mosque, with Gordion 80 km west.
The Aegean coast is the Greek and Roman ruins: Ephesus, the House of the Virgin Mary, Priene and Miletus within 50 km of each other south of İzmir, Pamukkale and Hierapolis 160 km inland on the same latitude. The Mediterranean has Antalya, Perge just outside it, Myra along the coast to the west, and Lake Eğirdir in the Taurus mountains behind. Cappadocia is the middle of the country: Göreme, Mount Erciyes and Mount Hasan, all volcanic, all within 120 km.
The east is where the points go. Mount Nemrut's stone heads and the Divriği mosque are eastern Anatolia; Trabzon and the Çoruh gorge are the Black Sea corner; Mount Ararat is the easternmost place in the set, on the Armenian and Iranian border, 290 km beyond Çoruh. Uludağ above Bursa is the odd one: a ski mountain 105 km south of Istanbul.
The daily in the app mixes photos from all 167 countries in the game, five a day, the same five for everyone.
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How many photos from Turkey are in the game?
28. They run from Edirne down to Myra, and a round picks five at random.
Which places in Turkey are the hardest to find?
The hard ones include Mount Hasan, Lake Eğirdir and House of the Virgin Mary. On any photo the score halves for every 693 km you are outside the accuracy radius.
Where is it easiest to get full points in Turkey?
Göreme, Cappadocia; Lake Eğirdir; Imbros; and Çoruh. They share the widest radius on this page, 60 km, and any pin inside it scores the full 5,000.