Cape Baba

This article covers the Cape on the Aegean coast. For the cape of the same name on the Black Sea coast north of Karadeniz Ereğli see Cape Baba (Black Sea) .

View of Cape Baba from the north (1895)

The Cape Baba ( Turkish Baba Burun ) is the westernmost point of both the Turkish and the Asian continent.

It is located on the western tip of Anatolia on the Aegean Sea . The place and the fortress Babakale are located at Cape Baba .

The distance to Cape Deschnjow , which is located at the eastern end of the Chukchi Peninsula (northeast Russia ) and Asia on the Bering Strait , is about 8,223 km; this corresponds to the largest west-east expansion of the Asian continent . The largest expansion within Asia is between Cape Deschnjow and Bab al-Mandab in Yemen with about 10,858 km.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Calculation with mapit

Coordinates: 39 ° 28 ′ 45 ″  N , 26 ° 3 ′ 50 ″  E