Armenia is the smallest landlocked country in Asia by total area. It covers about 29,743 square kilometres in the South Caucasus, between Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Turkey.
Armenia’s terrain is predominantly mountainous, and the country’s highest point is Mount Aragats at 4,090 metres. Lake Sevan, one of the largest high-altitude freshwater lakes in the world, occupies a major part of the national landscape.
The modern Republic of Armenia became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Yerevan, founded in the eighth century BCE, is the capital and one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited urban centers.
Armenia is sometimes grouped with Europe because of its political and cultural connections, but it is geographically located in the South Caucasus at the boundary of Europe and Asia. Among clearly Asian landlocked sovereign states, it is the smallest by area.