Editing Adjara (section)

== Economy ==
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Adjara has good land for growing tea, citrus fruits and tobacco. Mountainous and forested, the region has a subtropical climate, and there are many health resorts. Tobacco, tea, citrus fruits, and avocados are leading crops; livestock raising is also important. Industries include tea packing, tobacco processing, fruit and fish canning, oil refining, and shipbuilding.

The regional capital, [[Batumi]], is an important gateway for the shipment of goods heading into Georgia, [[Azerbaijan]] and landlocked [[Armenia]]. The port of Batumi is used for the shipment of oil from [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Turkmenistan]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Description |url=https://www.batumioilterminal.com/about-company |access-date=2023-12-28 |website=www.batumioilterminal.com}}</ref> Its oil refinery handles [[Caspian Sea|Caspian]] oil from Azerbaijan which arrives by pipeline to [[Supsa]] port and is transported from there to Batumi by rail. The Adjaran capital is a center for shipbuilding and manufacturing.

Adjara is the main center of Georgia's coastal tourism industry, having displaced the northwestern province of [[Abkhazia]] since that region's ''de facto'' secession from Georgia in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geostat.ge/media/53289/Inbound-Tourism-Statistics-%28I-Quarter%2C-2023-year%29.pdf|title=Inbound Tourism Statistics in Georgia (I-Quarter, 2023-year)|website=geostat.ge|access-date=16 February 2024}}</ref>