Black Sea Turkey
Black Sea Turkey in northern Turkey, is a humid and verdant region renowned for its natural beauty thanks to the high precipitation levels distributed evenly throughout the year.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Trabzon and Samsun.
Trabzon
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Trabzon is the largest city in the Eastern Karadeniz region of Turkey, with a population of 323,000 in 2023, and another 500,000 in the outlying towns.
Samsun
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Samsun, in the Central Karadeniz region of Turkey, is the largest city on the Turkish Black Sea coast. In 2021 it had a population of 710,000, with about as many more in its surrounding province.
Amasya
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Amasya is a city in the Central Karadeniz region of Turkey, with a population of 116,000 in 2023. It's 333 km northeast of Ankara in the gorge of the River Yeşilırmak and has a well-preserved old town.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Central Karadeniz and Western Karadeniz.
Central Karadeniz
Central Black Sea is a region in Black Sea Turkey, comprising the provinces of Amasya, Çorum, Ordu, Samsun and Tokat.
Western Karadeniz
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Western Karadeniz is a region extending 500 km along the Black Sea coast of Turkey, comprising the administrative provinces of Düzce, Bolu, Zonguldak, Karabük, Bartın, Kastamonu and Sinop.
Eastern Karadeniz
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Splendid forest scenery, stunning river gorges, misty alpine meadows, lush tea plantations, magnificent hillside monasteries, colossal cathedral ruins, forgotten mountain hamlets, lonely fishermen villages, ancient harbour towns, and fairy-tale castles all abound in Eastern Karadeniz, home to a local culture as rich as its biodiversity.
Black Sea Turkey
- Type: Region with 7,150,000 residents
- Description: geographical region of Turkey
- Also known as: “Black Sea region”, “Black Sea Region”, and “serkancopRTgcekizan”
- Neighbors: Black Sea, Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia, Georgia, and Marmara
- Category: region of Turkey
- Location: Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Uzbek—“Black Sea Turkey” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Rajoni i Detit të Zi”
- Arabic: “منطقة البحر الأسود”
- Armenian: “Սևծովյան երկրամաս”
- Armenian: “Սևծովյան տարածաշրջան”
- Azerbaijani: “Qara dəniz regionu”
- Basque: “Itsaso Beltzeko eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Чарнаморскі рэгіён”
- Bosnian: “Crnomorska regija”
- Bulgarian: “Черноморски регион”
- Catalan: “Regió de la Mar Negra”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی دەریای ڕەش”
- Central Kurdish: “ھەرێمی دەریای ڕەش”
- Chechen: “Ӏаьржа хӀордан регион”
- Chinese: “黑海地区”
- Chinese: “黑海地區”
- Czech: “Černomořský region”
- Dimli (individual language): “Mıntıqay Deryay Siyay”
- Dutch: “Karadeniz Bolgesi”
- Dutch: “Karadeniz Bölgesi”
- Dutch: “Zwarte Zee-regio”
- Dutch: “Zwarte Zeeregio”
- Esperanto: “Nigra Mara regiono”
- Esperanto: “Nigra-Mara regiono”
- Esperanto: “Nigramara regiono de Turkio”
- Estonian: “Musta mere piirkond”
- Finnish: “Mustanmeren alue”
- French: “Région de la mer Noire”
- Galician: “Rexión do Mar Negro”
- Georgian: “შავი ზღვის რეგიონი”
- German: “Karadeniz Bölgesi”
- German: “Schwarzmeerregion”
- German: “Türkische Schwarzmeer-Region”
- German: “Türkische Schwarzmeerküste”
- Greek: “Περιοχή Μαύρης Θάλασσας”
- Hebrew: “הים השחור”
- Hebrew: “מחוז הים השחור”
- Hungarian: “Fekete-tengeri régió”
- Indonesian: “Black Sea Region”
- Indonesian: “Karadeniz Bölgesi”
- Indonesian: “Kawasan Laut Hitam”
- Italian: “Regione del Mar Nero”
- Japanese: “黒海地方”
- Korean: “흑해 지역”
- Macedonian: “Црноморски регион”
- Marathi: “काळा समुद्र प्रदेश”
- Northern Frisian: “Suart-Sia-Regiuun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Svartehavsregionen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karadeniz Bölgesi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Svartehavsregionen i Tyrkia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Svartehavsregionen”
- Norwegian: “Svartehavsregionen”
- Ossetian: “Сау денджызы регион”
- Persian: “منطقه دریای سیاه”
- Persian: “ناحیه دریای سیاه”
- Portuguese: “Região do Mar Negro”
- Pushto: “تور سمندر سیمه”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Mării Negre, Turcia”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Mării Negre”
- Russian: “Черноморский регион”
- Scots: “Black Sea Region”
- Serbian: “Crnomorska regija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Crno More”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Crnomorska regija”
- Slovak: “Čiernomorský región”
- Slovenian: “Črno morje, Turčija”
- Slovenian: “Črno morje”
- South Azerbaijani: “قارادنیز بؤلگهسی”
- Spanish: “región del Mar Negro”
- Spanish: “Región del Mar Negro”
- Swahili: “Kanda ya Bahari Nyeusi”
- Swedish: “Svartahavsregionen”
- Tagalog: “Black Sea Region”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyon ng Dagat Itim”
- Tajik: “Минтақаи Баҳри Сиёҳ”
- Tamil: “கருங்கடல் பிராந்தியம்”
- Turkish: “Karadeniz Bölgesi”
- Uighur: “قارا دېڭىز رايونى”
- Ukrainian: “Чорноморський регіон”
- Urdu: “بحیرہ اسود علاقہ”
- Uzbek: “Qora dengiz mintaqasi”
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