Armenia is located in the South Caucasus and is the smallest of the former Soviet republics. It is bordered by Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Iran to the south and Turkey to the west. Modern Armenia is a fraction of the size of ancient Armenia. A land of rugged mountains and extinct volcanoes.
Currency : Dram
Official name : Hayastani Hanrapetut'yun
Languages : Armenian (official) 97.9%, Kurdish (spoken by the Yezidi minority) 1%, other 1%
Ethnicity : Armenian 98.1%, Yezidi (Kurd) 1.1%, other 0.7%
Religion : Armenian Apostolic 92.6%, Evangelical 1%, other 2.4%, none 1.1%, unspecified 2.9%.