Rize's the capital of Rize Province, in northeast Turkey, on the Black Sea coast. Geography The city's 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's being expanded with landfill and the city's growing up the steep hillsides away from the coast. Rize enjoys a mild, extremely wet climate, vulnerable to storms coming off the Black Sea and therefore the surrounding countryside's rich with vegetation and'… (More on Rize)