Arrival in Istanbul

I have just arrived in Istanbul and it is awesome here! So big and so beautiful...

Istanbul (Turkish: İstanbul) is the largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With a population of 14.1 million, the city forms one of the largest urban agglomerations in Europe,[d] second largest in the Middle East and the fifth-largest city in the world by population within city limits.[2][3] Istanbul's vast area of 5,343 square kilometers (2,063 sq mi) is coterminous with Istanbul Province, of which the city is the administrative capital.[c] Istanbul is atranscontinental city, straddling the Bosphorus—one of the world's busiest waterways—in northwestern Turkey, between theSea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its commercial and historical centre lies in Europe, while a third of its population lives in Asia.[4]