Batum oblast

Batum oblast Батумская область
Oblast
Coat of arms
Administrative map of the Batum Oblast
Coordinates: 41°38′45″N 41°38′30″E / 41.64583°N 41.64167°E / 41.64583; 41.64167
Country	Russian Empire
Viceroyalty	Caucasus
Established	1873
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk	3 March 1918
Capital	Batum (present-day Batumi)
Area
• Total	6,975.65 km2 (2,693.31 sq mi)
Population  (1916)
• Total	122,811
• Density	18/km2 (46/sq mi)
• Urban	22.02%
• Rural	87.98%

The Batum oblast^[a] was a province (oblast) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with the Black Sea port of Batum (present-day Batumi) as its administrative center. The Batum oblast roughly corresponded to most of present-day southwestern Georgia, and part of the Artvin Province of Turkey.^[1]

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