The Black Sea Region

The Black Sea Region is also named after the sea it borders just like the Marmara, Aegean and Mediterranean regions. The region covers 18% of Turkey with a surface area of 141,000 km². It extends from the border with Georgia in the east to the eastern edge of the Adapazari Plain in the west. The population of the region is 8,439,213 according to the 2000 census. 4,137,166 of the people live in urban and 4,301,747 in rural areas. Among the seven regions, this is the only one where the rural population exceeds the urban, and it has the lowest population growth rate of 3.65‰. The principal industrial facilities in the Black Sea region are the iron and steel factories in Karabük and Eregli, the Çatalagzi Thermal Power Plant, the anthracite beds in the environs of Zonguldak, the Murgul copper production complex and a number of factories in various parts of the region producing sugar, paper, sulfuric acid, vegetable oil, tea, hazelnut and its byproducts, fish flour and cigarettes.

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