Monday, November 19, 2012

Armenia




Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked, mountainouscountry in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijan exclave of Nakhijevan to the south.
Capital - Yerevan
Population - approx. 3 000 000
Government - Presidental Republic
Official language - Armenian
Ethnic groups - Armenians (96%), Russians, Yazidis, Kurds, Greeks, Assyrians, Ukrainians, Jews, Iranians, others


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