Georgia Country Info - Asia

Description and Basic Information

Georgia with its capital Tbilisi is located in Asia (Southwestern Asia, bordering the Black Sea). It covers some 69,701 square kilometres (slightly smaller than South Carolina) with 4,630,000 citizens. Georgian, Russian, Armenian and Azerbaijani are the languages commonly used by the people in Georgia (consider regional differences). Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Russia are bordering countries.

Georgia is a country in the Caucasus. It lies at the eastern end of the Black Sea, with Turkey and Armenia to the south, Azerbaijan to the east, and Russia to the north, over the Caucasus Mountains. Imagine cities with narrow side streets filled with leaning houses, overstretched balconies, mangled and twisted stairways, majestic old churches, heavenly food and warm and welcoming people. All of this with a backdrop of magnificent snow peaked mountains, and the best beaches of the Black Sea.

Pictures from Capital (Tbilisi)

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About Georgia

The landscape featureslargely mountainous with Great Caucasus Mountains in the north and Lesser Caucasus Mountains in the south with Kolkhet'is Dablobi (Kolkhida Lowland) opens to the Black Sea in the west, Mtkvari River Basin in the east and good soils in river valley flood plains, foothills of Kolkhida Lowland. The average density of population is about 66 per km². The climate in Georgia can be described as warm and pleasant with Mediterranean-like on Black Sea coast. Potential threats by nature are earthquakes.

To reach someone in Georgia dial +995 prior to a number. There are 620,000 installed telephones. And there are 2,837,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900, 1800 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".ge". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 220V - 50Hz. The following list are the 12 regions/states in Georgia we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Georgian population shrinked at a rate of -0.33% (or by 14,953 citizens). With 45,042 deaths and 49,229 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 0.09%. -19,139 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Georgia: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.