Black Sea Region (geographical)
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Black Sea Region Karadeniz Bölgesi |
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| Region of Turkey | |
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| Country | Turkey |
| Area | |
| • Total | 143,537 km2 (55,420 sq mi) |
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| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
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133
9
4
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86
9
3
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88
11
5
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58
15
8
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51
19
12
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71
23
16
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81
25
18
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88
25
18
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123
22
15
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153
18
12
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147
15
8
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154
11
5
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| Source: Turkish State Meteorology | |||||||||||
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| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
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5.2
49
38
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3.4
48
37
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3.5
51
40
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2.3
59
47
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2
65
53
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2.8
73
60
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3.2
77
65
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3.5
77
65
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4.8
72
60
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6
65
54
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5.8
58
47
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6.1
52
42
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| Average max. and min. temperatures in °F | |||||||||||
| Precipitation totals in inches | |||||||||||
The Black Sea Region (Turkish: Karadeniz Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey.
It is bordered by the Marmara Region to the west, the Central Anatolia Region to the south, the Eastern Anatolia Region to the southeast, the Republic of Georgia to the northeast, and the Black Sea to the north.
Provinces that are entirely in the Black Sea Region:
Provinces that are mostly in the Black Sea Region:
Provinces that are partially in the Black Sea Region:
The Black Sea region's population is 8,439,213 based on the 2010 census. 4,137,166 people live in cities and 4,301,747 people in villages. This makes it the only one of the seven regions of Turkey in which more people live in rural rather than urban areas.
Though the overwhelming majority is Turkish, the east of the region is also inhabited by the Laz, a people who speak a Kartvelian language which is closely related to Georgian and converted to Islam from Georgian Orthodoxy in the late Ottoman period as well as Muslim Georgians, also the Hemsin, Armenian converts to Islam, and Pontic Greeks, who converted to Islam in the 17th century. While a large community (around 25% of the population) of Christian Pontic Greeks remained throughout the Pontus area (including Trabzon and Kars in northeastern Turkey/the Russian Caucasus) until the 1920s, and in parts of Georgia and Armenia until the 2010s, preserving their own customs and dialect of Greek.
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