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The Laz people, or Lazi are a Caucasian ethnic group native to the South Caucasus, who mainly live in Black Sea coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia.
The beauty and kindess of Laz People. (An indigenious kartvelian-speaking ethnic group.) Laz language is spoken by 130.000 of people & is classified as an endangered by UNESCO.
Tea; Livehood of many people living on the mountains. These plantations are located in Rize, eastern part of blacksea region of Turkey.
Over 205,500 tonnes of tea produced, it soon became one of the largest tea markets & one of highest per capita tea consumption in the world.
(Yearly: 3.16kg per person.)