Georgia (country)

Capital of Georgia: Tbilisi
Area of Georgia: 69,700 km² (26,911 mi²) (121th)
Population of Georgia: 3,807,670 (131th) - (2024 est.)
Location: Northwestern Caucasus region of Eurasia
Languages of Georgia: Georgian (official) 87.6%, Azeri 6.2%, Armenian 3.9%, Russian 1.2%, other 1% (including Abkhaz, the official language in Abkhazia) (2014 est.)
Religions of Georgia: Georgian Orthodox (official) 83.4%, Muslim 10.7%, Armenian Apostolic Church 2.9%, other 1.2% (includes Roman Catholic Christian, Jehovah's Witness, Yazidi, Protestant Christian, Jewish), none 0.5%, unspecified/no answer 1.2% (2014 est.)
Currency: Georgian lari (₾) (GEL)
Calling code: (+995)
Organizations: United Nations, Commonwealth of Independent States

Border countries (4): Armenia 219 km, Azerbaijan 428 km, Russia 894 km, Turkey 273 km.
Coastline: Black Sea 310 km (190 mi)
Maritime boundaries: Black Sea

Administrative divisions of Georgia
9 regions (mkharebi, singular - mkhare), 1 city (kalaki), and 2 autonomous republics (avtomnoy respubliki, singular - avtom respublika)
Regions: Guria, Imereti, Kakheti, Kvemo Kartli, Mtskheta Mtianeti, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Shida Kartli; note - the breakaway region of South Ossetia consists of the northern part of Shida Kartli, eastern slivers of the Imereti region and Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, and part of western Mtskheta-Mtianeti.
City: Tbilisi.
Autonomous republics: Abkhazia or Ap'khazet'is Avtonomiuri Respublika (Sokhumi), Ajaria or Acharis Avtonomiuri Respublika (Bat'umi).
— note 1: the administrative centers of the two autonomous republics are shown in parentheses.
— note 2: the United States recognizes the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be part of Georgia.

Natural resources: timber, hydropower, manganese deposits, iron ore, copper, minor coal and petroleum deposits; coastal climate and soils allow for important tea and citrus growth.