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