General Information

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
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