A cape

Cape (geography)

In geography, a cape or headland is a point or body of land extending into a body of water, usually the sea.A cape usually represents a marked change in trend of the coastline. Their proximity to the coastline makes them prone to natural forms of erosion, mainly tidal actions. This results in capes...

(headland) is a point of land extending into the sea. Turkey, being a country of two big peninsulas (Anatolia and Thrace) is surrounded by four seas and has many capes. The surrounding seas (counter-clockwise from the north) are Black Sea, Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea.)

The list

The following list gives the names of capes of Turkey. The names are sometimes used with the suffix burun which means cape.

Cape	Main peninsula	Sea	Province
Fener	Anatolia Anatolia Anatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey...	Black Sea Black Sea The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...	Trabzon Trabzon Province Trabzon Province is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Located in a strategically important region, Trabzon is one of the oldest trade port cities in Anatolia. Neighbouring provinces are Giresun to the west, Gümüşhane to the southwest, Bayburt to the southeast and Rize to the east. The...
Kale	Anatolia	Black Sea	Giresun Giresun Province Giresun Province is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Trabzon to the east, Gümüşhane to the south-west, Erzincan to the south, Sivas to the south-east, and Ordu to the west. The provincial capital is Giresun....
Çam	Anatolia	Black Sea	Ordu Ordu Province Ordu Province is a province of Turkey, located on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Samsun to the northwest, Tokat to the southwest, Sivas to the south, and Giresun to the east. Its traffic code is 52...
Yasun Cape Jason Cape Jason is a cape located at Çaytepe / Çaka villages, Perşembe district, Ordu Province, Turkey...	Anatolia	Black Sea	Ordu
Civa	Anatolia	Black Sea	Samsun Samsun Province Samsun Province is a province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast with a population of 1,252,693 . Its adjacent provinces are Sinop on the northwest, Çorum on the west, Amasya on the south, Tokat on the southeast, and Ordu on the east...
Bafra	Anatolia	Black Sea	Samsun
Sinop	Anatolia	Black Sea	Sinop Sinop Province Sinop Province is a province of Turkey, along the Black Sea. It is located between 41 and 42 degrees North latitude and between 34 and 35 degrees East longitude. The surface area is 5,862 km², equivalent to 0.8% of Turkey's surface area. The borders total 475 km and consists of 300 km of land and...
İnce	Anatolia	Black Sea	Sinop
Usta	Anatolia	Black Sea	Sinop
Kerempe	Anatolia	Black Sea	Kastamonu Kastamonu Province Kastamonu Province is one of the provinces of Turkey, in the Black Sea region, to the north of the country. It is surrounded by Sinop to the east, Bartın and Karabük to the west, Çankırı to the south, Çorum to the south east and the Black Sea to the north....
Köpekkayası	Anatolia	Black Sea	Kastamonu
Baba	Anatolia	Black Sea	Zonguldak Zonguldak Province Zonguldak Province is a province along the western Black Sea coast region of Turkey. The province is 3.481 km² in size and has a population of 619,703 Its adjacent provinces are Düzce to the southwest, Bolu to the south, Karabük to the southeast, and Bartın to the east...
Pazarbaşı	Anatolia	Black Sea	Kocaeli Kocaeli Province Kocaeli Province is a province of Turkey. Its capital is İzmit, which is sometimes referred to as Kocaeli itself. The largest town in the province is now Gebze. The traffic code is 41. The province is located at the easternmost end of the Marmara Sea, especially on the Gulf of İzmit. Because of...
Servi	Thrace	Black Sea	Kırklareli Kirklareli Province Kırklareli Province is a province in northwestern Turkey on the west coast of the Black Sea. The province neighbours Bulgaria to the north along a 180 kilometers long border. It borders the province of Edirne to the west and the province of Tekirdağ to the south and province of Istanbul to the...
İğneada	Thrace	Black Sea	Kırklareli Kirklareli Kırklareli is the capital of Kırklareli Province in Eastern Thrace, on the European part of Turkey. The province has a coastline on the Black Sea. There is a Jewish community.-Name:It is not clearly known when the city was founded, nor under what name...
Liman	Thrace Thrace Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. As a geographical concept, Thrace designates a region bounded by the Balkan Mountains on the north, Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea on the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara on the east...	Marmara Sea	Tekirdağ Tekirdag Province The Tekirdağ Province is in Trakya , the northwestern part of Turkey. The capital city is Tekirdağ. It is famous for its meatball called "Tekirdağ köfte" and the Turkish alcoholic drink called Tekirdağ rakısı.-Districts:...
Boz	Anatolia	Marmara Sea	Yalova Yalova Province Yalova Province is a province in northwestern Turkey, on the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Bursa to the south and Kocaeli to the east. The provincial capital is the city of Yalova. The population of the Yalova Province is 203,741...
Kabsul	Anatolia	Marmara Sea	Balıkesir Balikesir Province Balıkesir Province is a province in midwestern Turkey, having coastlines on both the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean. Its adjacent provinces are Çanakkale to the west, İzmir to the southwest, Manisa to the south, Kütahya to the southeast, and Bursa to the east. The provincial capital is Balıkesir City...
İnce	Anatolia	Marmara Sea	Çanakkale Çanakkale Province Çanakkale Province is a province of Turkey, located in the northwestern part of the country. It takes its name from the town of Çanakkale.Like Istanbul, Çanakkale province has a European and an Asian part. The European part is formed by the Gallipoli peninsula, while the Asian part is largely...
Nara	Thrace	Marmara Sea	Çanakkale
Bakla	Thrace	Aegean Sea Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...	Çanakkale
Büyükkemikli	Thrace	Aegean Sea	Çanakkale
İlyasbaba	Thrace	Aegean Sea	Çanakkale
Mehmetçik Cape Helles Cape Helles is the rocky headland at the south-westernmost tip of the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey. It was the scene of heavy fighting between Turkish and British troops during the landing at Cape Helles at the beginning of the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915....	Thrace	Aegean Sea	Çanakkale
Kum	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	Çanakkale
Baba Cape Baba Cape Baba , is the westernmost point of Anatolian part of Turkey, making it the westernmost point of whole Asia. There is a lighthouse at Cape Baba. It was called Cape Lectum in classical times.-External links:*...	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	Çanakkale
Kum	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	Balıkesir
Aslan	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	İzmir Izmir Province İzmir Province is a province of Turkey in western Anatolia on the Aegean coast, whose capital is the city of İzmir. On the west it is surrounded by the Aegean sea, and it encloses the Gulf of İzmir. Its area is 11,973 km.2, population 3.948.848 . The population was 3,370,866 in 2000...
Kömür	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	İzmir
Top	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	İzmir
Teke	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	İzmir
Doğanbey	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	İzmir
Dil	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	Aydın Aydin Province Aydın Province is a province of southwestern Turkey, located in the Aegean Region. The provincial capital is the city of Aydın which has a population of approx. 150,000 . Other towns in the province include the summer seaside resorts of Didim and Kuşadası.-History:Aydın was founded by the ancient...
Tekağaç	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	Aydın Aydin Province Aydın Province is a province of southwestern Turkey, located in the Aegean Region. The provincial capital is the city of Aydın which has a population of approx. 150,000 . Other towns in the province include the summer seaside resorts of Didim and Kuşadası.-History:Aydın was founded by the ancient...
Fener	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	Muğla Mugla Province Muğla Province is a province of Turkey, at the country's south-western corner, on the Aegean Sea. Its seat is Muğla, about inland, while some of Turkey's largest holiday resorts, such as Bodrum, Ölüdeniz, Marmaris and Fethiye, are on the coast in Muğla....
İnce	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	Muğla
İskandil	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	Muğla
Deveboynu	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	Muğla
Kara	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Muğla
Kadırga	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Muğla
Kurtoğlu	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Muğla
İlbiz	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Muğla
Yedi	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Muğla
Yalı	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Antalya Antalya Province Antalya Province is located on the Mediterranean coast of south-west Turkey, between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean sea.Antalya Province is the centre of Turkey's tourism industry, attracting 30% of foreign tourists visiting Turkey. The province of Antalya corresponds to the lands of...
Ulu	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Antalya
Kırlangıç Cape Gelidonya Cape Gelidonya near Finike, Turkey is the site of a late Bronze Age wreck . In view of the cargo's nature and composition the excavators have proposed a possible levantine provenance. The remains of the ship sat at a depth of about 27 m, on irregular rocky bottom. It was located in 1954, and the...	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Antalya
Çavuş	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Antalya
Dildarde	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Antalya
Anamur	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Mersin Mersin Province The Mersin Province is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital is the city of Mersin and the other major town is Tarsus, birthplace of St Paul...
Sulusalma	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Mersin
Tisan Cape Tisan Cape Tisan is a headland on the Mediterranean sea coast of Mersin Province, Turkey.- Geography :The cape is near to Yeşilovacık town in Silifke district of Mersin Province...	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Mersin
İncekum	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Mersin
Deli	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Mersin
Karataş	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Adana Adana Province Adana Province is a province of Turkey located in south-central Anatolia. With a population of 2,085,225, it is the fifth most populous province in Turkey. The administrative seat of the province is the city of Adana, home to 78% of the residents of the province...
Portakal	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Adana
Akıncı	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Hatay