Caucasus

Today, the country we pay attention to is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus, Armenia. Armenia, that represents a former republic of the Soviet Union, is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. Interestingly, the country represents an unitary, multiparty, democratic nation-state with an ancient and historic cultural heritage.

Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. The country, located at the juncture of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan. During the major part of the 20th century, Georgia's economy was within the Soviet model of command economy. At present, tourism has become an increasingly significant part of the Georgian economy, with 103 resorts in different climatic zones in the country.