Rize
Rize is a city in the Eastern Karadeniz region, on Turkey's Black Sea coast, with a population of 122,000 in 2022. It has limited attractions for tourists but is a good base for exploring the northeast.
- Type: City with 120,000 residents
- Description: central district and city in Rize Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Bechirias”, “Çorum”, “Rhizaeum”, “Rhizaion”, “Rhizus”, “Risinium”, “Riza”, “Rizaeum”, “Rizaion”, “Rîze”, “Rize city”, “Rize City”, “Rize Merkez”, “Rizeh”, “Rizeon”, “Rizeu”, “Rizinium”, “Rizo”, “Rizounta”, “Ριζαίον”, and “Ризеон”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Rize Atatürk Museum and Rize castle.
Rize castle
Castle
Rize
- Categories: big city, municipality, and locality
- Location: Rize, Rize Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.0248° or 41° 1′ 29″ north
Longitude
40.5199° or 40° 31′ 12″ east
Population
120,000
Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)
IATA airport codes
QRI and RZV
UN/LOCODE
TR RIZ
Open location code
8HH22GF9+WX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Rize” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሪዝ”
- Arabic: “ريزة”
- Arabic: “ريزه”
- Armenian: “Ռիզե”
- Armenian: “Ռիզեի մարզ”
- Asturian: “Rize”
- Azerbaijani: “Rizə”
- Basque: “Rize”
- Belarusian: “Рызэ”
- Bengali: “রিজে”
- Bulgarian: “Ризе”
- Catalan: “Rize”
- Cebuano: “Rize”
- Chechen: “Ризе”
- Chinese: “里泽”
- Chinese: “里澤”
- Crimean Tatar: “Rize”
- Czech: “Rize”
- Czech: “Rizenská provincie”
- Danish: “Rize”
- Dimli (individual language): “Rize”
- Dutch: “Rize”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ريزه”
- Esperanto: “Rize”
- Finnish: “Rize”
- French: “Rize”
- Gagauz: “Rize”
- Georgian: “რიზე”
- German: “Rize”
- Gilaki: “ريزه”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Ριζούντας”
- Greek: “Ριζούντα”
- Gujarati: “રાઇઝ”
- Hausa: “Rize”
- Hebrew: “ריז”
- Hindi: “रिज़े”
- Hindi: “रीज़े”
- Hungarian: “Rize”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Rize”
- Indonesian: “Rize”
- Irish: “Rize”
- Italian: “Rize”
- Japanese: “リゼ”
- Javanese: “Rize”
- Kannada: “ರಯ್ಜ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Rize”
- Kazakh: “Різе”
- Kinyarwanda: “Rize”
- Kirghiz: “Різе”
- Korean: “리제”
- Kurdish: “Rize”
- Kurdish: “رزە”
- Latvian: “Rize”
- Laz: “Rizini”
- Lithuanian: “Rizė”
- Malay: “Rize”
- Marathi: “रीझ”
- Mazanderani: “ریزه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rize”
- Minangkabau: “Rize”
- Nauru: “Rize”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rize”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rize”
- Norwegian: “Rize”
- Oromo: “Rize”
- Ossetian: “Ризе”
- Panjabi: “ਰਿਜ਼ੇ”
- Persian: “ریزه”
- Polish: “Rize”
- Portuguese: “Rize”
- Pushto: “رائزے”
- Romanian: “Rize”
- Russian: “Ризе”
- Scots: “Rize”
- Serbian: “Rize”
- Serbian: “Ризе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rize”
- Silesian: “Rize”
- Sinhala: “රීස්”
- Slovak: “Rize”
- Slovenian: “Rize”
- Somali: “Rize”
- South Azerbaijani: “ریزه”
- Spanish: “Rize”
- Swahili: “Rize”
- Swedish: “Rize”
- Tajik: “Риза”
- Tajik: “Ризе”
- Talysh: “Rize”
- Tamil: “ரைஸ்”
- Tatar: “Ризе”
- Tatar: “Різе”
- Telugu: “రైజ్”
- Thai: “รีแซ”
- Turkish: “Rize”
- Udmurt: “Ризе”
- Ukrainian: “Ризе”
- Ukrainian: “Різе”
- Urdu: “ریزہ”
- Uzbek: “Rize”
- Venetian: “Rize”
- Vietnamese: “Rize”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rize”
- Western Armenian: “Ռիզէ”
- Western Mari: “Ризе”
- Western Panjabi: “ریزے”
- Wu Chinese: “里泽”
- “Rize”
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