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About Georgia

Georgia  (Georgian: საქართველო Sakartvelo) is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan.

• Capital: Tbilisi
• State language: Georgian
• National currency: GEL
• Territorial Arrangement: 2 Autonomous Republics, 64 municipalities, 5 self-governing cities
• Population: 2006 census, the territory controlled 4,661,473
• Ethnic composition, 2002 est.: Georgians - 83.8%, Azeri - 6.5%, Armenians - 5.7%, Russians - 1.5%, Ossetians - 0.9%, Kurds - 0.4%, Greeks - 0.3% Kists - 0.2%, Ukrainians - 0.2%, Abkhaz - 0,1%
• Religious composition, 2002 est.: Orthodox Christians - 84.00%, Muslims - 9.9%, Armenian Gregorian - 3.9%, Catholics - 0.8%, Kurds - 0.4%, Jews - 0.1%, and others