Everything you need to know about Armenia
Explore Armenia from Yerevan and the Ararat plain to Lake Sevan, the forests of Tavush and the mountains of Syunik. Learn ten provinces and the separate capital, place twenty cities and sixteen sights, discover ten illustrated topics and begin Armenian.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Armenia
A landlocked highland country, ten provinces and a capital on the Hrazdan.
Know the shape of the country
Find all ten provinces, called marzes, and separate Yerevan, then place twenty cities and towns and locate the Aras and Lake Sevan. Zoom in for the capital and small enclaves. Boundaries: geoBoundaries/Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5, generalised 2005 reference geometry. Waters: Natural Earth, public domain. City coordinates are curated. These learning maps do not show present security control, border demarcation or current water levels.
Places worth visiting
Essential ยท Ancient temple
Garni Temple
Garniโs reconstructed colonnaded temple stands within an ancient fortress complex. Its classical architecture offers a contrast to Armeniaโs medieval churches. The site also preserves other archaeological remains, and the nearby gorge has striking basalt formations.
Locate sixteen places from Yerevan and the Ararat plain to northern Lori, Lake Sevan and southern Syunik. Monasteries, archaeology, a memorial, manuscripts and landscapes reveal different parts of Armeniaโs story. Essential and Detour describe learning priorities. Landscape pins are representative locations; check current access with the responsible venue or protected area. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Armenian with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Armenia, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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