Samtskhe-Javakheti
Samtskhe–Javakheti is a region in southern Georgia with a population of 147,400 and an area of 6,413 km2. The region has Akhaltsikhe as its administrative center.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Akhaltsikhe and Borjomi.
Akhaltsikhe
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Akhaltsikhe is a small city of about 18,000 people and the capital of Samtskhe-Javakheti. It's a rather sleepy town, but its Old City and Old Turkish baths are worth a visit, and it's a great base for exploring the surrounding areas, including Sapara Monastery in the immediate vicinity and Vardzia to the south with Khertvisi and Tmogvi Fortresses along the way.
Borjomi
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Borjomi is a town in central Georgia as well as the name of a natural reserve and of the famous volcanic salty spring water. The source of this spring water lies in the Borjomi gorge.
Akhalkalaki
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Akhalkalaki is a town in Georgia's southern region of Samtskhe–Javakheti and the administrative centre of the Akhalkalaki Municipality. Akhalkalaki lies on the edge of the Javakheti Plateau.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Vardzia and Abastumani.
Vardzia
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Vardzia a cave monastery site in Georgia, on the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia next to the border with Turkey.
Abastumani
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Abastumani is a small Czarist-era spa town and Soviet-built astrophysical observatory in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region.
Samtskhe-Javakheti
- Type: mkhare with 140,000 residents
- Description: region (mkhare) of Georgia
- Also known as: “Samcʻxe-javaxetʻi” and “Samtskhe–Javakheti”
- Location: Georgia, Caucasus, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Wu Chinese—“Samtskhe-Javakheti” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Самцхе-Џьавахеҭи”
- Arabic: “سامتسخه-جافاخيتي”
- Arabic: “سامتسخه–جافاخيتي”
- Armenian: “Սամցխե Ջավախեթի”
- Armenian: “Սամցխե-Ջավախեթի մարզ”
- Armenian: “Սամցխե-Ջավախք”
- Armenian: “Սամցխե-Ջավախքի մարզ”
- Azerbaijani: “Samtsxe-Cavaxeti diyarı”
- Azerbaijani: “Samtsxe-Cavaxeti”
- Basque: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Belarusian: “Самцхе-Джавахеці”
- Belarusian: “Самцхэ-Джавахеты”
- Belarusian: “Самцхэ-Джавахэці”
- Bengali: “সাঁমটস্কে-জাভাকেটি”
- Breton: “Samtsc’he-Djavac’hethi”
- Breton: “Samtsche-Djavachethi”
- Bulgarian: “Джавахетия”
- Bulgarian: “Самцхе-Джавахети”
- Catalan: “Samtskhé-Djavakheti”
- Catalan: “Samtskhé-Djavakhètia”
- Catalan: “Samtskhé”
- Cebuano: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Chechen: “Самцхе-Джавахети”
- Chinese: “萨姆茨赫-扎瓦赫季”
- Chinese: “萨姆茨赫-贾瓦赫蒂”
- Chinese: “薩姆茨赫-扎瓦赫季州”
- Chinese: “薩姆茨赫-賈瓦赫蒂大區”
- Croatian: “Samche-Džavahetija”
- Czech: “Samcche-Džavacheti”
- Czech: “Samcche-Džavachetie”
- Czech: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Danish: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Dimli (individual language): “Samçxe-Cavaxeti”
- Dimli (individual language): “Samtsxe-Cavaxeti”
- Dutch: “Samtsche-Dzjavacheti”
- Esperanto: “Samcĥe-Ĝavaĥeti”
- Esperanto: “Samcĥe-Javaĥeti”
- Esperanto: “Samcĥeo-Ĝavaĥetio”
- Estonian: “GE-SJ”
- Estonian: “Samtshe-Džavahhethi piirkond”
- Estonian: “Samtshe-Džavahhethi”
- Finnish: “Dzavakheti”
- Finnish: “Džavakheti”
- Finnish: “Dzhavakheti”
- Finnish: “Samtskhe-Džavakheti”
- Finnish: “Samtskhe-Dzhavakheti”
- Finnish: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Finnish: “Samtskhe”
- French: “Samtskhe-Djavakheti”
- French: “Samtskhé-Djavakhétie”
- French: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Georgian: “სამცხე-ჯავახეთი”
- Georgian: “სამცხე-ჯავახეთის მხარე”
- German: “Dschawachetien”
- German: “Dschawachk”
- German: “GE-SJ”
- German: “Samzche-Dschawacheti”
- German: “Samzche-Dschawachetien”
- German: “Samzche”
- Greek: “Σάμτσκε-Τζαβακέτι”
- Greek: “Σάμτσχε-Τζαβαχέτι”
- Gujarati: “સમ્ટસખે-જવાખેટી”
- Hebrew: “סאמצחה ג’אוואחתי”
- Hebrew: “סאמצחה-ג’אוואחתי”
- Hebrew: “סאמצחה-גאוואחתי”
- Hindi: “सम्सकी-जावखेती”
- Hungarian: “Samche-Dzsavaheti”
- Hungarian: “Szamche-Dzsavaheti”
- Indonesian: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Italian: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Japanese: “サムツヘ・ジャバヘチ地区”
- Japanese: “サムツヘ・ジャバヘチ州”
- Japanese: “サムツヘ＝ジャヴァヘティ州”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾಮ್ತ್ಕೆ-ಜಾವಾಖೆತಿ”
- Korean: “삼츠케-자바케티 주”
- Korean: “삼츠케-자바케티”
- Korean: “삼츠케”
- Korean: “삼츠케자바케티 주”
- Korean: “삼츠케자바케티”
- Korean: “삼츠케자바헤티 주”
- Korean: “삼츠헤-자바헤티 주”
- Korean: “삼츠헤-자바헤티”
- Korean: “삼츠헤”
- Korean: “삼츠헤자바헤티 주”
- Korean: “삼츠헤자바헤티주”
- Latin: “Meschetia et Dzhavachetia”
- Latvian: “Samche-Džavahetija”
- Lezghian: “Самцхе-Джавахети”
- Lithuanian: “Samcchė-Džavachetija”
- Lithuanian: “Samcchė–Džavachetija”
- Macedonian: “Samcche-Džavachetie”
- Macedonian: “Samcchė-Džavachetija”
- Macedonian: “Samcche-Dżawachetia”
- Macedonian: “Samcĥe-Javaĥeti”
- Macedonian: “Samçxe-Cavaxeti”
- Macedonian: “Samtsc’he-Djavac’hethi”
- Macedonian: “Samtsche-Dzjavacheti”
- Macedonian: “Samtsche-Dzjavachetien”
- Macedonian: “Samtshe-Cavaheti”
- Macedonian: “Samtshe-Džavahhethi”
- Macedonian: “Samtsje-Javajeti”
- Macedonian: “Samtsje-Yavajeti”
- Macedonian: “Samtskhé-Djavakhétie”
- Macedonian: “Samtskhe-Džavakheti”
- Macedonian: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Macedonian: “Samtskhé”
- Macedonian: “Samzche-Dschawachetien”
- Macedonian: “Szamche-Dzsavaheti”
- Macedonian: “Самцхе-Джавахети”
- Macedonian: “Самцхе-Джавахеті”
- Macedonian: “Самцхе-Джавахеці”
- Macedonian: “Самцхе-Джавахэці”
- Macedonian: “Самцхе-Џавахетија”
- Macedonian: “Самцхе-Џьавахеҭи”
- Macedonian: “Џавахетија”
- Macedonian: “სამცხე-ჯავახეთის მხარე”
- Macedonian: “Սամցխե-Ջավախք”
- Macedonian: “סאמצחה-ג’אוואחתי”
- Macedonian: “삼츠헤자바헤티 주”
- Macedonian: “薩姆茨赫-扎瓦赫季州”
- Malay: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Malayalam: “സാംറ്റ്സ്കെ ജവാഖേറ്റി”
- Marathi: “समष्टखे-जवखेती”
- Mingrelian: “სამცხე-ჯავახეთიშ აკანი”
- Northern Frisian: “Samts’che-Dschawacheetien”
- Northern Frisian: “Samtsche-Dschawacheetien”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samtskhe-Dzjavakheti”
- Norwegian: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Ossetian: “Самцхе-Джавахет”
- Ossetian: “Самцхе-Джавахети”
- Pampanga: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Persian: “سامتسخه-جاواختی”
- Polish: “Dżawachetia”
- Polish: “Samcche Dżawachetia”
- Polish: “Samcche-Dżawachetia”
- Portuguese: “Mesquécia-Javaquécia”
- Portuguese: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Quechua: “Samtskhe-Javakheti suyu”
- Quechua: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Romanian: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Russian: “Край Самцхе-Джавахети”
- Russian: “Самцхе-Джавахети”
- Russian: “Самцхе-Джавахетия”
- Russian: “Самцхе-Джавахетский край”
- Russian: “Самцхе-Джавахк”
- Russian: “Самцхе”
- Scots: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Serbian: “Самцхе-Џавахетија”
- Serbian: “Самче-Жавахети”
- Sinhala: “සම්ට්ස්කේ-ජවක්හෙටි”
- Slovenian: “Samče-Džavahetija”
- Spanish: “Región de Mesjetia-Yavajetia”
- Spanish: “Región de Samtsje-Yavajeti”
- Spanish: “Samtsje Javajeti”
- Spanish: “Samtsje-Dshavajeti”
- Spanish: “Samtsje-Javajeti”
- Spanish: “Samtsje-Yavajeti”
- Spanish: “Samtskhe Javakheti”
- Spanish: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Swedish: “Samtsche-Dzjavacheti”
- Swedish: “Samtsche-Dzjavachetien”
- Swedish: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Tamil: “சமட்ஸ்கேஹீ -ஜவக்ஹெட்டி”
- Telugu: “సాంస్ఖ్-జావాఖేడి”
- Thai: “แคว้นซัมท์สเฆ-จาวาเฆที”
- Turkish: “Samtshe-Cavahet”
- Turkish: “Samtshe-Cavaheti”
- Ukrainian: “Джавахк”
- Ukrainian: “Самцхе-Джавахеті”
- Urdu: “سامتسخے-جاواختی”
- Uzbek: “Samtsxe-Javaxeti”
- Vietnamese: “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Waray (Philippines): “Samtskhe-Javakheti”
- Western Armenian: “Սամցխէ Ջաւախետի մարզ”
- Wu Chinese: “萨姆茨赫-扎瓦赫季州”
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