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Gökçeada, formerly called Imvros, is an Aegean island in Eastern Thrace in Turkey, with a population in 2020 of 10,106. It's near the entrance to the Dardanelles and is hilly and windswept. It was Greek until 1923, when along with Tenedos/Bozcaada it was assigned to Turkey, making its Cape Avlaka / İnce Burun the westernmost point of Turkey.

Imbros or İmroz, officially Gökçeada since 29 July 1970, (Greek: Ίμβρος, romanized: Imvros) is the largest island of Turkey and the seat of Gökçeada District of Çanakkale Province. It is located in the north-northeastern Aegean Sea, at the entrance of Saros Bay, and is the westernmost point of Turkey (Cape İncirburnu). Imbros has an area of 279 km2 (108 sq mi) and has some wooded areas. According to the 2020 census, the island district of Gökçeada has a population of 10,106. The main industries of Imbros are fishing and tourism. By the end of the 20th century, the island was predominantly inhabited by settlers from the Turkish mainland that mostly arrived after 1960, with the indigenous Greek population has declined to about 300 persons by the start of the 21st century.

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