Armenia

Republic of Armenia
Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն
Hayastani Hanrapetut’yun  (language?)
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: Մեր Հայրենիք
Mer Hayrenik
"Our Fatherland"
Location of Armenia
Toropo Kgolo
and Toropo ye kgolokgolo
Yerevan
Maleme a semmušo Armenian[1]
Ethnic groups (2011)
  • 98.1% Armenians
  •   1.2% Yazidis
  •   0.4% Russians
  •   0.3% other[2][3]
Religion Armenian Apostolic Church[4]
Demonym Armenian
Mmušo Unitary parliamentary republic
 -  President Armen Sarkissian
 -  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
 -  President of the National Assembly Ara Babloyan
Legislature National Assembly
Formation and independence
 -  Traditional date 2492 BC 
 -  Hayasa-Azzi 1500–1290 BC 
 -  Arme-Shupria[5][6] 14th century–1190 BC 
 -  Urartu[7] 860–590 BC 
 -  Orontid dynasty 6th century BC 
 -  Kingdom of Greater Armenia united under
the Artaxiad Dynasty[8]
190 BC[9] 
 -  Arsacid dynasty 52–428 
 -  Bagratid Armenia 885–1045 
 -  Kingdom of Cilicia 1198–1375 
 -  First Republic of Armenia declared 28 May 1918 
 -  Independence from the Soviet Union 21 September 1991 
Area
 -  Palomoka 29,743 km2 (138th)
11,484 sq mi
 -  Metse (%) 4.71
Palo ya Badudi
 -  2016 estimate 2,924,816
 -  2011 census Decrease 3,018,854[10][11] (134th)
 -  Density 101.5/km2 (99th)
262.9/sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2017 estimate
 -  Total $28,282 billion[12]
 -  Per capita $9,456[12]
GDP (nominal) 2017 estimate
 -  Total $11,548 billion[12]
 -  Per capita $3,861[12]
Gini (2013)31.5[13]
medium
HDI (2015)Increase 0.743[14]
high · 84th
Time zone AMT (UTC+4)
O otlela ka lehlakoreng right
Calling code +374
Patron saint St. Gregory
Internet TLD
  • .am
  • .հայ

Armenia ke naga lefasaneng la Europa, toropokgolo ya gona ke Yerevan.

E na le badudi ba 2,924,816.


  1. "Constitution of Armenia, Article 20". president.am.
  2. Asatryan, Garnik; Arakelova, Victoria (Yerevan 2002). The Ethnic Minorities in Armenia. Part of the OSCE. at WebCite (16 April 2010).
  3. Ministry of Culture of Armenia "The ethnic minorities in Armenia. Brief information". As per the most recent census in 2011. "National minority".
  4. "National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia - Official Web Site - parliament.am". www.parliament.am.
  5. Lang, David Marshall. Armenia: Cradle of Civilization. London: Allen and Unwin, 1970, p. 114. Template:ISBN.
  6. Redgate, Anna Elizabeth. The Armenians. Cornwall: Blackwell, 1998, pp. 16–19, 23, 25, 26 (map), 30–32, 38, 43 Template:ISBN.
  7. Redgate, A. E. (2000). The Armenians (Reprint ed.). Oxford: Blackwell. p. 5. ISBN 0-631-22037-2. However, the most easily identifiable ancestors of the later Armenian nation are the Urartians.
  8. de Laet, Sigfried J.; Herrmann, Joachim, eds. (1996). History of Humanity: From the seventh century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. (1st ed.). London: Routledge. p. 128. ISBN 978-92-3-102812-0. The ruler of the part known as Greater Armenia, Artaxias (Artashes), the founder of a new dynasty, managed to unite the country...
  9. Encyclopedia Americana: Ankara to Azusa. Scholastic Library Publishing. 2005. p. 393. It was named for Artaxias, a general of Antiochus the Great, who founded the kingdom of Armenia about 190 B.C.
  10. "Statistical Service of Armenia" (PDF). Armstat. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  11. "Armenia Population". countrymeters.info.
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 "Report for Selected Countries and Subjects". World Economic Outlook Database, April 2018. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  13. "Gini index". World Bank. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  14. "Human Development Report 2016" (PDF). United Nations. 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2017.

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