Armenia
Armenia (officially Republic of Armenia) is a country in Western Asia, with its capital at Yerevan, and is home to roughly 3.0M people.
Armenian is the official language; the currency in circulation is Armenian dram (֏); people from here are called Armenian.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »Armenia adopted Christianity as its state religion in 301 AD, generally reckoned the first country to do so.
- »Mount Ararat, the national symbol and the image on the coat of arms, sits across the border in Turkey.
> BORDERS_
Armenia touches four neighbours: Azerbaijan to the east, Georgia to the northwest, Iran to the southeast and Turkey to the west. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Yerevan's founding is dated to 782 BC by a cuneiform inscription on a fortress hill, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It was rebuilt in the 1920s to a radial plan in pink volcanic tuff.
> SCALE_
29,532 km² (11,402 sq mi), 140th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Lesotho.
Population 3,033,500, 135th of 198 on file. That averages 103 per km² (266 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
Red for the blood shed defending the nation, blue for the Armenian sky, orange for the land and the labour of the people.