Why in the news?

  • Armenia has become the newest state member of the IUCN, the announcement, made during the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi.

Armenia

  • Location: Armenia is a landlocked country in West Asia.
  • Capital: Yerevan
  • Borders:
    • West – Turkey
    • North – Georgia
    • East – Azerbaijan
    • South – Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan