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Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a
landlocked mountainous country in Eurasia between the Black Sea
and the Caspian Sea, located in the Southern Caucasus. It shares
borders with Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan
to the east, and Iran and the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan
to the south. A former republic of the Soviet Union, Armenia is
a unitary, multiparty, democratic nation-state with an ancient
and historic cultural heritage. The first nation to adopt Christianity
as its official, state religion, Armenia is constitutionally a
secular state today, although the Christian faith plays a major
role in both its history and the identification of the Armenian
people.
Culturally, historically, and politically, Armenia is considered
to be part of Europe, while its geographical location in the southern
Caucasus puts it on the border between Europe and Asia Minor,
making it a transcontinental country. However, these classifications
are entirely arbitrary, as are the geographic bounderies of Asia
and Europe.
Armenia is currently a member of more than thirty-five different international organizations, including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, Asian Development Bank, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the World Trade Organization and the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. It is a Partnership for Peace (PfP) member of NATO and in a military alliance of CSTO. It is also an observer member of the Eurasian Economic Community, La Francophonie, and the Non-Aligned Movement. Armenia is also active in the international sports community with full membership in the Union of European Football Associations and International Ice Hockey Federation. The country is an emerging democracy and because of its strategic location, it lies among both the Russian and Western spheres of influence.
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