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Last updated: 23 March 2005
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Country name:
Conventional long form: None
Conventional short form: Georgia
Local long form: None
Local short form: Sakartvelo
Former: Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Country code: GEO Internet code:.ge
Capital:
Tbilisi (pop. 1 253 00)
President: Mikhail Saakashvili
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The Flag and the Emblem of Georgia
and National Anthem
Administrative divisions: The country is divided into 9 districts, 65
regions, 5 towns of Republic Dependence (without Abkhazia and Tskhinvali)
Population: 4,960,951 (July 2002 est.) Rural: 44% Urban: 56%
Nationality: noun: Georgian(s) adjective: Georgian
Ethnic groups: Georgian 70.1%; Armenian 8.1%; Russian 6.3%; Azeri 5.7%; Ossetian 3%; Abkhaz 1.8%; other 5% |
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Languages: Georgian 71% (official); Russian 9%; Armenian 7%; Azeri 6%; other 7%
Note! Abkhaz is the official language in Abkhazia, however Georgian is spoken as well
Religions: Main religion is Greek Orthodoxy: 65%;
Muslim 11%; Russian Orthodox 10%; Armenian Apostolic 8%; unknown 6%; Catholics, Baptists, Judaists
Labour force: 2.1 million (2001 est.)
By occupation:
agriculture: 40%
industry: 20%
services: 40% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 17% (2001 est.)
Population below poverty line: 54% (2001 est.)
Agricultural products: Citrus, grapes, tea, vegetables, potatoes; livestock
Natural Resources: Oil, coal, peat, iron, magnum, copper, projectile-zinc, arsenic, mercury, andezit, barite, talc,
serpentit, agate, quartz, basalt, granite, diorite, marble, forests, hydropower, manganese deposits, iron ore; coastal climate and soils allow
for important tea and citrus growth
Industries: Steel, aircraft, machine tools, electrical appliances, mining (manganese),
chemicals, wood products, wine
GDP:Composition per sector:
agriculture: 25%
industry: 20%
services: 55% (2001 est.)
Environment - current issues: Air pollution, particularly in Rust'avi; heavy pollution of Mtkvari River
and the Black Sea; inadequate supplies of potable water; soil pollution from toxic chemicals
Environment international agreements:
Partly to: Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol,
Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea,
Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
Signed, but not ratified: None of the selected agreements
International Organization Participation: BSEC, CCC, CE, CIS, EAPC, EBRD, ECE, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU, IDA,
IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ITU, OPCW, OSCE, PFP, UN,
UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO
Currency: Georgian Lari (GEL)
Time: GMT + 3 (GMT + 4 from last Sunday in March to Saturday before last Sunday in October)
Telephony: Country code: 995. The area code for Tbilisi is 32
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