Rize (Province)

Rize
Province number:	53
Counties
Basic data
Coordinates:	40 ° 56 ' N , 40 ° 51' E Coordinates: 40 ° 56 ' N , 40 ° 51' E
Provincial capital:	Rize
Region:	Black Sea Region
Surface:	3,835 km²
Population:	348,608 (2018)
Population density:	90.9 inhabitants / km²
Political
Governor:	Kemal Çeber
Seats in Parliament:	3
Structural
Telephone code:	0464
Features :	53
Website
	www.rize.gov.tr (Turkish)

Rize (city)

Rize is a province in northeastern Turkey on the Black Sea . The provincial capital is the eponymous Rize . The province borders on Trabzon Province to the west, Erzurum and Bayburt to the south and Artvin to the east . The province has a coastline of about 90 km.

The province has 248,608 inhabitants (as of 2018), 103,145 of them in the capital Rize.

Administrative division

The province is divided into twelve districts ( İlçe ):

district	Area ¹ (km²)	Population (2018) ²		Number of Units			Density (Ew / km²)	urban share (in%)	Sex ratio ³	Founding date ^4.5
district	Area ¹ (km²)	District ( İlçe )	Administrative headquarters (Merkez)	Municipalities (Belediye)	City quarter (Mahalle)	Villages (Köy)	Density (Ew / km²)	urban share (in%)	Sex ratio ³	Founding date ^4.5
Ardeşen	376	41,084	25,436	2	30th	40	109.3	68.07	999	1953
Çamlıhemşin	897	8,121	1,853	1	10	24	9.1	22.82	983	1960
Çayeli	442	44,304	21,336	3	35	54	100.2	62.18	1008	1944
Derepazarı	28	9,365	4,402	1	7th	11	334.5	47.00	940	1990
Fındıklı	383	16,902	10,867	1	8th	23	44.1	64.29	1004	1948
Güneysu	159	16,750	4,657	1	8th	21st	105.3	27.80	996	1987
Hemşin	134	2,817	1,556	1	4th	8th	21.0	55.24	1009	1990
İkizdere	855	9,809	2,359	1	7th	29	11.5	24.05	828	1945
İyidere	28	10,018	6.111	1	8th	7th	357.8	61.00	966	1990
Kalkandere	107	16,768	8,062	1	12	22nd	156.7	48.08	728	1959
Merkez Rize	253	141.143	103.145	4th	66	60	557.9	79.62	1055
Pazar	173	31,527	16.304	1	12	48	182.2	51.71	1030
PROVINCE of Rize	3,835	348,608		18th	207	347	90.9	64.27	1002	1935

swell

¹ Area 2014
² Population update on December 31, 2018
³ Gender ratio : number of women per 1000 men (calculated)
⁴ PDF file of the Ministry of the Interior
⁵ districts that were only formed after Turkey was founded (1923).

population

Results of the population extrapolation

The following table shows the annual population development after updating by the addressable population register (ADNKS) introduced in 2007. In addition, the population growth rate and sex ratio are ( Sex Ratio listed ie number of women per 1,000 men). The 2011 census found 322,367 inhabitants, over 43,000 fewer than in the 2000 census.

year	Population at the end of the year			Population growth rate (in%)	Gender ratio (women per 1000 men)	Rank (among 81 provinces)
year	total	male	Female	Population growth rate (in%)	Gender ratio (women per 1000 men)	Rank (among 81 provinces)
2018	348,608	174.130	174,478	5.31	1002	56
2017	331.041	164.978	166.063	0.00	1007	56
2016	331.048	164,727	166,321	0.63	1010	56
2015	328,979	163.379	165,600	−0.24	1014	56
2014	329.779	163.003	166,776	0.48	1023	56
2013	328.205	162.918	165.287	1.25	1015	56
2012	324.152	160.351	163,801	0.35	1022	56
2011	323.012	159,304	163,708	1.06	1028	57
2010	319,637	157.161	162,476	0.02	1034	57
2009	319,569	157.753	161,816	0.05	1026	57
2008	319.410	157,650	161,760	1.00	1026	57
2007	316.252	155,580	160,672	-	1033	57
2000	365.938	181,200	184,738		1020	52

Census results

The following tables show the population of the province of Rize documented in the 14 censuses .
The values in the table on the left are taken from e-books (from the original documents), the values in the table on the right come from the data query of the Turkish statistical institute TÜIK - available on this website:

year	population		rank
year	province	Turkey	rank
1927	171,657	13,648,270	37
1935	-	16.158.018	-
1940	172.764	17,820,950	48
1945	171,929	18,790,174	49
1950	181,512	20,947,188	51
1955	211,967	24,064,763	52
1960	248.930	27,754,820	47

year	population		rank
year	province	Turkey	rank
1965	281.099	31,391,421	46
1970	315,700	35.605.176	46
1975	336.278	40,347,719	47
1980	361.258	44,736,957	48
1985	374.206	50,664,458	50
1990	348,776	56.473.035	51
2000	365.938	67,803,927	52

Number of provinces in relation to the census years:

1927, 1940 to 1950: 63 provinces
1935: 57 provinces
1955: 67 provinces
1960 to 1985: 73 provinces
1990: 73 provinces
2000: 81 provinces

economy

The cultivation of tea plants and, in some cases, the cultivation of kiwi fruit are particularly important economically . The first tea plant cultivation in Turkey took place in 1937 in Rize. With a contribution of 66% to the 1.25 million tons of the total Turkish harvest (2012), the province of Rize is the largest tea plant cultivation area in Turkey.

traffic

The D010 ( E 70 ) trunk road , also known as the " Black Sea Coast Road ", runs parallel to the Black Sea coast . It runs from the province of Kars (near the Armenian border) to Karasu (province of Sakarya , near the city of İzmit ). The D925 trunk road runs from İyidere in a south-easterly direction inland to Erzurum (212 km).