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| General | Last updated on 15 January, 2010 |
| Country name: | conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Georgia
local long form: none
local short form: Sak'art'velo
former: Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic | | Location: | Southwestern Asia, bordering the Black Sea, between Turkey and Russia (lat/lon: 42 00 N, 43 30 E) | | Area: | total: 69,700 sq km
country comparison to the world: 120
land: 69,700 sq km
water: 0 sq km | | Climate: | warm and pleasant; Mediterranean-like on Black Sea coast | | Time zone: | GMT +4:00 | | Population: | 4,615,807 (July 2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 118 | | Languages: | Georgian 71% (official), Russian 9%, Armenian 7%, Azeri 6%, other 7%
note: Abkhaz is the official language in Abkhazia | | Religions: | Orthodox Christian 83.9%, Muslim 9.9%, Armenian-Gregorian 3.9%, Catholic 0.8%, other 0.8%, none 0.7% (2002 census) | | Ethnic groups: | Georgian 83.8%, Azeri 6.5%, Armenian 5.7%, Russian 1.5%, other 2.5% (2002 census) | | Capital: | name: T'bilisi
geographic coordinates: 41 43 N, 44 47 E
time difference: UTC+4 (9 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) | | Currency (code): | Lari (GEL) | | Telephone calling code: | +995 | | International Codes: | Geography code (by fips 10-4): GG
Country code (by ISO-3166): GE (2 char); GEO (3 char); 268 (number);
Internet code: .ge
Language code (by ISO-639): KA (K'art'uli, IBERIO-CAUCASIAN language family) |
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