Rize

a city and port on the Black Sea coast of Turkey; administrative center of the vilayet of Rize. Population, 31,000 (1970). It is the commercial and industrial center of Turkey’s main tea-growing region and has food (tea factories, a cod-liver oil plant) and woodworking industries. Handicrafts, such as carpets and fabrics, are also produced.

(also Riza), the highest peak of the Kopetdag mountain system in the Turkmen SSR. Elevation, 2,942 m.