Georgia
Georgia is a country in Western Asia, with its capital at Tbilisi, and is home to roughly 3.8M people.
Georgian is the official language; the currency in circulation is lari (₾); people from here are called Georgian.
- »Archaeological evidence puts winemaking here at around 8,000 years ago, the earliest known.
- »The Georgian alphabet is one of only a handful of alphabets in the world in original use.
Georgia touches four neighbours: Armenia to the southeast, Azerbaijan to the southeast, Russia to the northeast and Turkey to the southwest. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Tbilisi means roughly 'warm place', for the sulphur hot springs it was founded on. Legend has a king discovering them when a wounded pheasant fell into one.
68,983 km² (26,634 sq mi), 119th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Ireland.
Population 3,812,518, 130th of 198 on file. That averages 55 per km² (143 per sq mi).
The five crosses, one large and four small, are known as the Five Cross Flag and date to the medieval kingdom. It was revived in 2004 after centuries of disuse.