Adopted Christianity as a state religion in 301 CE, the first country in the world to do so.
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Armenia
Republic of Armenia ยท ีีกีตีกีฝีฟีกีถ
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
29.74Kkmยฒ of land
$4.62KGDP / person
YerevanCapital
- ISO codes
- AM ยท ARM
- Density
- 99 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Armenian
- Currency
- Armenian dram (AMD)
- Dial code
- +374
- Internet domain
- .am
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 40.4590ยฐ N, 44.8010ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Armenian
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $13.67B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Armenia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
138th
of 242 ยท 0.04% of world population
Land area
142nd
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world land
GDP per person
149th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
104th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Armenia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 2,957,731 people, the 138th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 2,596 of everyone alive.
Covers 29,743 kmยฒ, making it the 142nd largest country here - about 11.5 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 99 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Yerevan, at 40.18ยฐ N, 44.51ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,102,000.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Turkey.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Yerevan.
The currency is the Armenian dram (AMD, symbol ึ).
The official language is Armenian.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Yerevan
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UTC+04:00
Cities
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Yerevan
Erevan
40.1831ยฐ N, 44.5116ยฐ E
1.1M
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Armenia.