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Armenia

Armenia is a landlocked country in the . Once the centre of an empire, this former Soviet republic straddles the line between Europe and Asia. Armenia has a rich, ancient history, and it is most famously known for being the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as the state religion.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Yerevan and Gyumri.

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is the capital of the Republic of Armenia, one of the three hubs of the South Caucasus and is home to over a million people — the largest Armenian community in the world.

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is the second largest city in Armenia and the capital of Shirak Province in . The city was hit hard by the 1988 earthquake, the consequences of which are still visible throughout the city in the 2020’s.

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, in , is Armenia's fourth-largest city. It was officially renamed Vagharshapat in 1995, but the old name is still in common use colloquially and in some official contexts.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Central Armenia and Northern Armenia.

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is Armenia's political, cultural, economic, and transit hub, home to the political and spiritual capitals of and .

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includes the 3 northernmost provinces of Armenia. The western part of this region is arid, while the central and eastern parts are often lush and green, with much of Armenia's forests.

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is in Armenia. is full of tall mountain ranges, valleys, gorges and forests. One main highway takes you from top to bottom, with dramatic changes in elevation and scenery.

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Gegharkunik is a province of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is . Gegharkunik is inhabited by approximately 209,669 people and the majority are ethnic Armenians.

Armenia

Latitude of center
40.3° or 40° 18′ north
Longitude of center
44.9° or 44° 54′ east
Population
2,970,000
Area
29,800 km² (11,506 miles²)
Elevation
2,768 metres (9,081 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dram (AMD)
Phone code
.am
Internet domain
374
Open­Street­Map ID
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Geo­Names ID
174982
Wiki­data ID
Q399
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Armenia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ермантәыла”
  • Achinese: “Armenia”
  • Achinese: “Armènia”
  • Adyghe: “Армение”
  • Afrikaans: “Armenië”
  • Afrikaans: “Arminië”
  • Akan: “Aamenia”
  • Albanian: “Armeni”
  • Albanian: “Armenia”
  • Amharic: “አርመኒያ”
  • Amharic: “አርሜኒያ”
  • Amis: “Arminiya”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀρμενία”
  • Angika: “आर्मीनिया”
  • Angika: “आर्मेनिया”
  • Arabic: “أرمنيا”
  • Arabic: “أرمينيا”
  • Arabic: “ارمينيا”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية أرمينيا”
  • Aragonese: “Armenia”
  • Armenian: “Hayastan”
  • Armenian: “Hayastani Hanrapetut’yun”
  • Armenian: “Հայաստան”
  • Armenian: “Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն”
  • Armenian: “Հայք”
  • Armenian: “ՀՀ”
  • Arpitan: “Armènia”
  • Arpitan: “Armènie”
  • Assamese: “আৰ্মেনিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Armenia”
  • Asturian: “República d’Armenia”
  • Atayal: “Armenia”
  • Avaric: “Армения”
  • Avaric: “ЦIамухъ”
  • Awadhi: “आर्मेनिया”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ermənistan Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ermənistan”
  • Balinese: “Arménia”
  • Bambara: “Arimeni”
  • Bashkir: “Әрмәнстан”
  • Basque: “Armenia”
  • Bavarian: “Armenien”
  • Belarusian: “Арменія”
  • Belarusian: “Армэнія”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Армэніі”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Армэнія”
  • Bengali: “আর্মেনিয়া প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bengali: “আর্মেনিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Lemènder”
  • Bhojpuri: “आर्मीनिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “আর্মেনিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Amenia”
  • Bislama: “Armenia”
  • Bosnian: “Armenija”
  • Bosnian: “Ermenija”
  • Bosnian: “Jermenija”
  • Brahui: “Armeníá”
  • Breton: “Armenia”
  • Bulgarian: “Армения”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Армения”
  • Burmese: “အာမေနီးယား”
  • Burmese: “အာမေးနီးယား”
  • Burmese: “အာမေးနီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Armènia”
  • Catalan: “República d’Armènia”
  • Cebuano: “Armenya”
  • Central Bikol: “Armenya”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەرمەنستان”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەرمینیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆماری ئەرمەنستان”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆماری ئەرمینیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھایاستان”
  • Chamorro: “Armenia”
  • Chavacano: “Armenia”
  • Chechen: “Эрмалойчоь”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᎵᎻᏂᎠ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏍᎦᏚᎩ ᎾᎿ ᎠᎵᎻᏂᎠ”
  • Chinese: “Armenia”
  • Chinese: “Yàměiníyà”
  • Chinese: “亚美尼亚 / 亞美尼亞”
  • Chinese: “亚美尼亚”
  • Chinese: “亚美尼亚共和国”
  • Chinese: “亞美尼亞”
  • Chinese: “亞美尼亞共和國”
  • Chinese: “阿美尼亞”
  • Church Slavic: “Армєнїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Эрмени”
  • Cornish: “Armeni”
  • Corsican: “Armenia”
  • Corsican: “Republica di Armenia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ermenistan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ermenístan”
  • Croatian: “Armenija”
  • Croatian: “Hayastan”
  • Croatian: “Hayastani Hanrapetut’yun”
  • Croatian: “Republika Armenija”
  • Croatian: “Հայաստան”
  • Croatian: “Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն”
  • Czech: “Arménie”
  • Dagbani: “Armenia”
  • Danish: “Armenien”
  • Dhivehi: “އަރުމީނިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ermenıstan”
  • Dotyali: “आर्मेनिया”
  • Dutch: “Armenie”
  • Dutch: “Armenië”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Armenië”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨར་མི་ནི་ཡ”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨར་མེ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Армений”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ارمينيا”
  • Erzya: “Армения Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Armenio”
  • Esperanto: “Armenujo”
  • Esperanto: “Hajio”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Armenio”
  • Estonian: “Armeenia Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Armeenia”
  • Ewe: “Armenia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Armenia”
  • Extremaduran: “Armeña”
  • Extremaduran: “Arménia”
  • Faroese: “Armenia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Armenia”
  • Finnish: “Armenia”
  • Finnish: “Armenian tasavalta”
  • French: “Armenie”
  • French: “Arménie”
  • French: “République d’Arménie”
  • Friulian: “Armenie”
  • Fulah: “Armaaniya”
  • Fulah: “Armenii”
  • Ga: “Armenia”
  • Gagauz: “Armeniya”
  • Gagauz: “Ermenistan”
  • Galician: “Armenia”
  • Ganda: “Arameniya”
  • Ganda: “Armenia”
  • Georgian: “სასომხეთი”
  • Georgian: “სომხეთი”
  • German: “Armenien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Armenia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Armenia”
  • Gilaki: “أرمنستؤن”
  • Gilaki: “أرمنستان ٚ جؤمۊري”
  • Gilaki: “أرمنستان”
  • Gilaki: “هایاستان”
  • Goan Konkani: “Armenia”
  • Goan Konkani: “अर्मेनिया”
  • Gorontalo: “Armenia”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Αρμενία”
  • Guarani: “Armenia”
  • Guarani: “Ayméña”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Arméni”
  • Gujarati: “આર્મેનિયા ગણરાજ્ય”
  • Gujarati: “આર્મેનિયા”
  • Haitian: “Ameni”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Armenia”
  • Hausa: “Armeniya”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Āmēnia”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻĀmēnia”
  • Hebrew: “ארמניה”
  • Hindi: “आर्मीनिया”
  • Hindi: “आर्मेनिया”
  • Hungarian: “Örmény Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Örményország”
  • Iban: “Armenia”
  • Icelandic: “Armenía”
  • Ido: “Armenia”
  • Igbo: “Armenia”
  • Iloko: “Armenia”
  • Inari Sami: “Armenia täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Armenia”
  • Indonesian: “Armenia”
  • Ingush: “Эрмалойче”
  • Interlingua: “Armenia”
  • Interlingua: “Republica de Armenia”
  • Interlingue: “Armenia”
  • Irish: “an Airméin”
  • Irish: “An Airméin”
  • Italian: “Armenia”
  • Italian: “Repubblica di Armenia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Aamiinia”
  • Japanese: “アルツ”
  • Japanese: “アルメニア”
  • Japanese: “アルメニア共和国”
  • Javanese: “Armèni”
  • Javanese: “Arménia”
  • Kabardian: “Ермэлые”
  • Kabiyè: “Armenii”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Arménia”
  • Kabyle: “Arminya”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Armenia”
  • Kalaallisut: “Armenia”
  • Kalmyk: “Хемшудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಅರ್ಮೇನಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಆರ್ಮೇನಿಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Armeniya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Эрмения”
  • Kashmiri: “آرمینیا”
  • Kashmiri: “اَرمانِیا”
  • Kashubian: “Armenijô”
  • Kazakh: “Армения”
  • Kazakh: “Әрменстан”
  • Khmer: “អាមេនី”
  • Khmer: “អារមីនៀ”
  • Khmer: “អារមេនី”
  • Kikuyu: “Armenia”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Arumeniya”
  • Kirghiz: “Apмения”
  • Kirghiz: “Армения”
  • Komering: “Armenia”
  • Komi: “Армения”
  • Kongo: “Armenia”
  • Korean: “아르메니아 공화국”
  • Korean: “아르메니아”
  • Korean: “하야스탄 공화국”
  • Korean: “하야스탄”
  • Kotava: “Xayastana”
  • Kurdish: “Ermenistan”
  • Ladin: “Armenia”
  • Ladino: “Armenia”
  • Lak: “Арманисттан”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດອາກເມນີ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດອາຣ໌ມີເນຍ”
  • Lao: “ອາມິເນຍ”
  • Lao: “ອາເມເນຍ”
  • Latgalian: “Armeneja”
  • Latin: “Armenia”
  • Latvian: “Armēnija”
  • Lezghian: “Эрменистан”
  • Ligurian: “Armenia”
  • Limburgan: “Armenië”
  • Lingala: “Amɛni”
  • Lingala: “Armeni”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Armenia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Haiastan”
  • Literary Chinese: “亞美尼亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Armėnija”
  • Livvi: “Armienii”
  • Lombard: “Armenia”
  • Low German: “Armenië”
  • Low German: “Armenien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Armeńska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Ameni”
  • Lule Sami: “Armenna”
  • Lule Sami: “Armiedna”
  • Luxembourgish: “Armenien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ermenia”
  • Macedonian: “Ерменија”
  • Madurese: “Armenia”
  • Maithili: “अर्मेनिया”
  • Maithili: “आर्मेनिया”
  • Malagasy: “Armenia”
  • Malay: “Armenia”
  • Malay: “ارمينيا”
  • Malayalam: “അർമേനിയ”
  • Maltese: “Armenja”
  • Maltese: “l-Armenja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Armenja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯔꯃꯦꯅꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “yn Armeain”
  • Manx: “Yn Armeain”
  • Maori: “Āmenia”
  • Marathi: “अर्मेनिया”
  • Marathi: “आर्मेनिया”
  • Mazanderani: “ارمنستون”
  • Mazanderani: “ارمنسون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Armenia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Armenia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hayastan”
  • Minangkabau: “Armenia”
  • Mingrelian: “სომხეთი”
  • Mingrelian: “სომხეთიშ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰაიასტანი”
  • Mingrelian: “Հայաստան”
  • Mirandese: “Arménia”
  • Moksha: “Армения”
  • Moksha: “Армениянь республикась”
  • Mongolian: “Армен”
  • Mongolian: “Армени”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أرمينيا”
  • Nauru: “Arminiya”
  • Navajo: “Dziłkʼi Dah Názʼéelii Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Armenia”
  • Nepali: “आर्मेनिया”
  • Newari: “आर्मेनिया”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Armenia”
  • North Ndebele: “Armenia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Armeenien”
  • Northern Luri: “ارمنستان”
  • Northern Sami: “Armenia dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Armenia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Armenia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Armenia”
  • Norwegian: “Armenia”
  • Novial: “Armenia”
  • Nyanja: “Armenia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Armenia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Armènia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܪܡܢܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Armenia”
  • Oriya: “ଆର୍ମେନିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Armeeniyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Сомих”
  • Ossetian: “Сомихыстон”
  • Pali: “आर्मीनिया”
  • Pampanga: “Armenia”
  • Pangasinan: “Hayastan”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਰਮੀਨੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਰਮੀਨੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Armenia”
  • Pedi: “Armenia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Armeni”
  • Persian: “ارمنستان”
  • Picard: “Arménie”
  • Piemontese: “Armenia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Aarmanya”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Repablik o‘ Aarmanya”
  • Polish: “Armenia”
  • Pontic: “Αρμενία”
  • Portuguese: “Arménia”
  • Portuguese: “Armênia”
  • Portuguese: “Hayastan”
  • Portuguese: “República da Armênia”
  • Prussian: “Armēnija”
  • Pushto: “ارمنستان”
  • Quechua: “Armenia”
  • Quechua: “Arminya”
  • Quechua: “Hayasuyu”
  • Romanian: “Armenia”
  • Romanian: “Republica Armenia”
  • Romanian: “Армения”
  • Romansh: “Armenia”
  • Rundi: “Arumeniya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Армени”
  • Russian: “Айастан”
  • Russian: “Армения”
  • Russian: “Республика Армения”
  • Rusyn: “Арменія”
  • Sakizaya: “Armenia”
  • Samoan: “Amenia”
  • Samogitian: “Armienėjė”
  • Sango: “Armenïi”
  • Sanskrit: “आर्मीनिया”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱨᱢᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Armènia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Armenien”
  • Scots: “Armeinie”
  • Scots: “Armenie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Airmeinea”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Airmeinia”
  • Serbian: “Jermenija”
  • Serbian: “Арменија”
  • Serbian: “Јерменија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Armenija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ermenija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jermenija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဢႃႇမေးၼီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Armenia”
  • Shona: “Arumeniya”
  • Sicilian: “Armenia”
  • Silesian: “Armynijŏ”
  • Silesian: “Armyńijo”
  • Sindhi: “آرمينيا”
  • Sindhi: “ارمینیا”
  • Sinhala: “ආර්මේනියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Armenia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Armenia”
  • Slovak: “Arménska republika”
  • Slovak: “Arménsko”
  • Slovenian: “Armenija”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Armenija”
  • Somali: “Armania”
  • Somali: “Armeeniya”
  • Somali: “Armiiniya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ارمنیستان”
  • Spanish: “Armenia”
  • Spanish: “Hayastan”
  • Spanish: “Hayastani Hanrapetut’yun”
  • Spanish: “República de Armenia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Armenikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵔⵎⵉⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵕⵎⵉⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Arménia”
  • Swahili: “Armenia”
  • Swati: “I-Arimeniya”
  • Swedish: “Armenien”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Armenien”
  • Swiss German: “Armenie”
  • Tachelhit: “Arminya”
  • Tagalog: “Armenia”
  • Tagalog: “Armenya”
  • Tahitian: “Āmenia”
  • Tajik: “Арманистон”
  • Talysh: “Erməniston”
  • Tamil: “அர்மேனியா”
  • Tamil: “ஆர்மீனியா”
  • Tamil: “ஆர்மேனியா”
  • Taroko: “Armenia”
  • Tatar: “Әрмәнстан”
  • Telugu: “ఆర్మేనియా”
  • Tetum: “Arménia”
  • Thai: “ประเทศอาร์มีเนีย”
  • Thai: “ประเทศอาร์เมเนีย”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐอาร์มีเนีย”
  • Thai: “อาร์มีเนีย”
  • Thai: “อาร์เมเนีย”
  • Thai: “ฮายาสตาน”
  • Thai: “ฮายาสถาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཨར་མེ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “አርሜኒያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ኣርሜኒያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Amenia”
  • Tok Pisin: “Armenia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAmēnia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻĀmenia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻĀminia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Armenien”
  • Tsonga: “Armenia”
  • Tulu: “ಅರ್ಮೇನಿಯಾ”
  • Tumbuka: “Armenia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “أرمينيا”
  • Turkish: “Ermenistan Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Ermenistan”
  • Turkmen: “Ermenistan”
  • Twi: “Aminia”
  • Tyap: “A̱ri̱meniya”
  • Tyap: “A̱rmeniya”
  • Udmurt: “Армения”
  • Uighur: “ئەرمېنىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Вірменія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Armenska”
  • Urdu: “آر مینیا”
  • Urdu: “آرمینیا”
  • Uzbek: “Armaniston”
  • Venetian: “Armènia”
  • Veps: “Ajastan”
  • Veps: “Armenii”
  • Veps: “Armenijan Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Ác-mê-ni-a (Armenia)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ác-mê-ni-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Armenia”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Armenia”
  • Vietnamese: “Hayastan”
  • Vlaams: “Armenië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Armeniya”
  • Volapük: “Larmeniyän”
  • Võro: “Armeeniä”
  • Walloon: “Årmeneye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Armenya”
  • Welsh: “Armenia”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Armenia”
  • Western Armenian: “Hayasdan”
  • Western Armenian: “Hayasdani Hanrabedoutiun”
  • Western Armenian: “Հայաստան”
  • Western Armenian: “Հայաստանի Հանրապետութիւն”
  • Western Balochi: “ارمنستان”
  • Western Frisian: “Armeenje”
  • Western Frisian: “Armenië”
  • Western Mari: “Армени”
  • Western Panjabi: “آرمینیا”
  • Wolof: “Armeeni”
  • Wolof: “Armeni”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚美尼亚”
  • Yakut: “Эрмээн Сирэ”
  • Yakut: “Эрмээнийэ”
  • Yiddish: “ארמעניע”
  • Yiddish: “אַרמעניע”
  • Yoruba: “Améníà”
  • Yoruba: “Arméníà”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Améníà”
  • Yue Chinese: “Armenia”
  • Yue Chinese: “Ayastani Hanrapetutyun”
  • Yue Chinese: “Hayastan”
  • Yue Chinese: “Republic of Armenia”
  • Yue Chinese: “Հայաստան”
  • Yue Chinese: “Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞美尼亞”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞美尼亞共和國”
  • Zeeuws: “Armenië”
  • Zhuang: “Armenia”
  • Zulu: “i-Armenia”
  • “AM”
  • “ARM”
  • “Armeeniä”
  • “Armègna”
  • “Armenia”
  • “Armienėjė”
  • “Arminii”
  • “ma Aja”
  • “Армения”
  • “आर्मीनिया”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Armenia”. Photo: Alexander Naumov, CC BY 3.0.