- Armenia (State), officially republic of Armenia (in Armenian, Hayastani Hanrapetutyun), country of Occidental Asia, situated in Transcaucasia, limited to the North by Georgia, in the East by Aserbaidschan, to the South by Iran and autonomous region of Nakhichevan (Aserbaidschan), on the West by Turkey. The republic of Armenia extends over a surface of 29 800 km2. The capital is Erevan. The ancient republic of the USSR, Armenia became an independent State in 1991 and adhered the same year to the Community of the independent States ( CIS ). Since 1990, an armed conflict having for stake fastening with Armenia of the enclave of Haut-Karabagh ( Aserbaidschan) sets two States
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