Countries

Armenia

Armenia is a landlocked, mountainous country in the South Caucasus, bordered by Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey. It adopted Christianity as its state religion in the early 4th century, and its alphabet, created around 405, is still in use today.

The stone walls of Khor Virap monastery on a low hill, with the snow-covered cone of Mount Ararat rising behind

Khor Virap, below Mount Ararat

Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0

Adopted in 1990, a year before independence. Officially, red stands for the Armenian Highland and the struggle for survival, blue for peaceful skies, and orange for creativity and hard work.

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