{"id":2543,"date":"2024-04-14T18:40:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T14:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/?page_id=2543"},"modified":"2024-04-14T18:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T14:44:36","slug":"about-artsakh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/?page_id=2543","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT ARTSAKH &#8211; General Information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Official name<\/strong>: The&nbsp;Republic of Artsakh or the&nbsp;Nagorno Karabagh Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Capital<\/strong>: Stepanakert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>State Language<\/strong>: Armenian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Religion<\/strong>: The majority of the population is Christian (Armenian Apostolic Church)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Main Law<\/strong>: Constitution (adopted through a nationwide referendum on February 20, 2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Currency<\/strong>: Armenian Dram (AMD), put into circulation in 1993<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Population<\/strong>: 148.1 thousand people (as of January 1, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ethnic Composition<\/strong>: Armenians (99%), Russians, Ukrainians, Greeks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Belarussians and others<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Territory<\/strong>:&nbsp;12,493&nbsp;km<sup>2<\/sup>, of which 1,041 km<sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;are under the occupation of Azerbaijan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Geographical Location<\/strong>: Southern Caucasus and borders with\u00a0the Republic of Armenia (from the West), the Islamic Republic of Iran (from the South), Republic of Azerbaijan (from the North and East)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Time Zone<\/strong>: GMT+ 4.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Climate<\/strong>: mostly mild and temperate, in some parts dry subtropical<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Average atmospheric temperature:<\/strong>&nbsp;+10.9\u00b0 C<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Average volume of annual atmospheric precipitations<\/strong>: 587 mm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The average height above sea level<\/strong>: 1100 m<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The highest mountain peaks<\/strong>: Gomshasar (3724 m), Gzhasar (3616 m), Tskhud (3518 m), Mrav (3343 m), Mets Kirs (2725 m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The largest rivers<\/strong>: Araks, Vorotan, Hagari, Tartar, Khachen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Natural resources<\/strong>: zinc, lead, copper, gold, sulfuric pyrites, arsenic, manganese, iron, tungsten, mercury, chromium, antimony, molybdenum, marble, granite, tuff, basalt, limestone, Iceland spar, barite, pumice, zeolite, asbestos, perlite, marl, gypsum, coal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Official name: The&nbsp;Republic of Artsakh or the&nbsp;Nagorno Karabagh Republic Capital: Stepanakert State Language: Armenian Religion: The majority of the population is Christian (Armenian Apostolic Church) Main Law: Constitution (adopted through a nationwide referendum on February 20, 2017) Currency: Armenian Dram (AMD), put into circulation in 1993 Population: 148.1 thousand people (as of January 1, 2016) [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2545,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2543","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2543\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsakhforum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}