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ABOUT GEORGIA

  Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of Georgia is Tbilisi. Georgia covers a territory of 69,700 square kilometres (26,911 sq mi), and its population is almost 5 million.

The recorded history of Georgia dates back more than 4,000 years. Georgia is also one of the first world countries that adopted Christianity as the state religion in the first half of the 4th century. Its culture is unusually rich for its size, with the Georgian language possessing not only its own script introduced in 5th century BC but also language group.

  There are hundreds of natural specimens which make momentous impression on visitors. Among them are dinosaur tracks, enormous and very deep caves, deep and endemic types of canyons, full-flowing rivers having buoyant energy force, lakes and glaciers of different origin, virgin and light forests, semi-deserts and marshes, soils and endemic plants, etc. It is also important that various specimens of nature are concentrated on small spaces that increases their recreational purpose. The bulk of them are located in the protected territories of Georgia.

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