General Information

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Official name: Georgia
Local Name: Sak’art’velo
Location & Size: Georgia is situated at the cross-roads of Europe and Asia. About the size of Switzerland it occupies 69.700 sq. km between the Black and Caspian Seas. It borders Turkey: 252 km, Russia: 723 km, Armenia: 164 km and Azerbaijan: 322 km.
Capital: Tbilisi, 1.3 million
Government: Presidential Parliamentary Democracy
ADMINISTRATIVE SUBDIVISION:
Georgia has also 12 regions (the names of towns are in parenthesis):

• Abkhazia (Sokhumi)
• Adjaria (Batumi)
• Guria (Ozurgeti)
• Imereti (Kutaisi)
• Kakheti (Telavi)
• Kvemo Kartli (Rustavi)
• Mtskheta-Mtianeti (Mtskheta)
• Racha-Lechkhumi-Kvemo Svaneti ( Ambrolauri)
• Samegrelo-Zemo sSvaneti ( Zugdidi)
• Samtskhe-Javakheti (Akhaltsikhe)
• Shida Kartli (Gori)
• Tbilisi (Tbilisi)

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Georgian (83%), with its own alphabet which is over 2,000 years old.
Other languages: Other languages: Russian 5,6%; Armenian 5%; Azeri 5,2%, other 1,2%
POPULATION: 4.6 million
NATIONALITY: Georgian(s)
ETHNIC GROUPS: Georgian 82.3%; Armenian 5. 5%; Azeri 5.7%; Russian 2.2%; Abkhaz 1.2%; other 3. 5%
RELIGION: religion is Georgian Orthodox: 81. 3 %; Russian Orthodox 5.2%; Muslim 5.8%; Armenian Apostolic 4.7%; Catholic 1%, Hebrew 1%, Others 1%.
ELECTRICITY: 200v AC. 50Hz. Standard European switchers.
COUNTRY CODE: GEO
INTERNET CODE: .ge
TIME ZONE: Summer time + 2 GMT Winter time: + 3 GMT