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I am not Turkey expert but does the statement "Climate of Marmara Region is maki and wood." really make sense? -mokeni 19:13, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good explanation of Marmara but trying to make a sense of it RoxanaTM (talk) 21:39, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Major changes/corrections

Maps

Right now, these maps are used in the article:

These maps are quite simply incorrect; the borders of the geographical regions of Turkey do not overlap with the borders of the administrative provinces.

This is the correct map of the geographical Marmara Region:

Provinces in the Marmara Region

Since the borders do not overlap, there can be no clear-cut list of provinces in the Marmara Region.

Right now, this list is featured in the article:

Provinces in the Marmara Region

Balıkesir Province

Bilecik Province

Bursa Province

Çanakkale Province

Edirne Province

İstanbul Province

Kırklareli Province

Kocaeli Province

Sakarya Province

Tekirdağ Province

Yalova Province

This list is also incorrect.

If we want to list the provinces in the Marmara Region, we will need at least two, but preferable three categorizies:

Provinces that are entirely in the Marmara Region.
Provinces that are mostly in the Marmara Region.
Provinces that are partially in the Marmara Region.

According to this map, which shows both geographical and provincial borders, the correct list should be as follows:

Provinces in the Marmara Region
Provinces that are entirely in the Marmara Region:

Edirne

İstanbul

Kırklareli

Kocaeli

Tekirdağ

Yalova

Provinces that are mostly in the Marmara Region:

Balıkesir

Bilecik

Bursa

Çanakkale

Sakarya

Provinces that are partially in the Marmara Region:

Eskişehir

Manisa

Population

Since the geographical borders are imprecise (they don't overlap with district borders either), there is no convenient way to calculate the population of the geographical Marmara Region, or other geographical regions of Turkey for that matter. Any figure you see on the Internet in this regard is, at best, imprecise guesswork. I propose that we rank geographical regions among themselves and leave it at that. --Mttll (talk) 10:16, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Marmara economic data

the GDP per capita data is confusing, why is the GDP per capita calculated based on a population of ~1.4 million when the population is over 27 million? Ldg316 (talk) 22:53, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. Besides, there is no source for GDP per capita. 2A01:827:10CB:F901:DD47:D659:41F0:203E (talk) 18:17, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 1 November 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: pages moved. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 19:56, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Marmara Region → Marmara region
Eastern Anatolia Region → Eastern Anatolia region
Aegean Region → Aegean region
Black Sea Region → Black Sea region

– These geographical regions of Turkey are not usually capped in sources. Dicklyon (talk) 18:36, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support Per WP:NCCAPS, MOS:CAPS and evidence of usage. The terms are not consistently capped in sources (see ngrams Black Sea region, Agean region, Eastern Anatolia region and Marmara region). Cinderella157 (talk) 01:03, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.