Editing Rize (section)

==Geography==
The city is built around a small bay on the [[Black Sea]] coast, on a narrow strip of flat land between the sea and the mountains behind. The coastal strip is being expanded with landfill and the city is expanding up the steep hillsides away from the coast.

Rize is probably best known for its [[Rize tea|black tea]] which was introduced to the region in the 1940s and 1950s, changing the destiny of a region which was until then desperately poor.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.yeniansiklopedi.com/rize/ |title=Rize Çayı ve Rize kenti (tr) |access-date=2012-05-15 |archive-date=2020-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523013513/http://www.yeniansiklopedi.com/rize/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>  The local tea research institute was founded in 1958 and other tea gardens can be seen all around the town. [[Tea]] is even planted in local gardens. Rize is a centre for processing and shipping locally grown [[Rize Tea]]. More recently [[kiwifruit]] plants have also been grown in Rize. Fishing remains another important local source of income.

Tourism to destinations in and around Rize is growing in importance.

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File:Aşağı Ceymakçur 01.jpg|[[Kaçkar Mountains National Park]]
File:Pokut Yaylası Rize.JPG|Pokut Yayla is a popular tourism destination
File:Tar Creek Waterfall View.jpg|Tar Creek Waterfall
File:Entrance of the Castle of Rize, Rize, Turkey.JPG|Entrance to Rize Castle
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