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Area: total: 29,800 sq km
land: 28,400 sq km
water: 1,400 sq km

Climate: highland continental, hot summers, cold winters

Terrain: Armenian Highland with mountains little forest land fast flowing rivers good soil in Aras River valley

Natural resources: small deposits of gold, copper, molybdenum, zinc, bauxite

Population: 2,968,586 [July 2008 est.]

Age structure: 0-14 years: 18.7% [male 296,401/female 259,594]
15-64 years: 70.3% [male 975,438/female 1,111,989]
65 years and over: 11% [male 128,398/female 196,766] [2008 est.]

Nationality: noun: Armenian[s]
adjective: Armenian

Ethnic groups: Armenian 97.9%, Yezidi [Kurd] 1.3%, Russian 0.5%, other 0.3% [2001 census]

Languages: Armenian 97.7%, Yezidi 1%, Russian 0.9%, other 0.4% [2001 census]

Capital: name: Yerevan
geographic coordinates: 40 10 N, 44 30 E
time difference: UTC+4 [9 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time]
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March ends last Sunday in October

National holiday: Independence Day, 21 September [1991]

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 17.2%
industry: 36.4%
services: 46.4% [2007 est.]

Labor force: 1.2 million [2007 est.]

Budget: revenues: $1.667 billion
expenditures: $1.654 billion including capital expenditures of [2007 est.]

Agriculture - products: fruit [especially grapes], vegetables livestock

Industries: diamond-processing, metal-cutting machine tools, forging-pressing machines, electric motors, tires, knitted wear, hosiery, shoes, silk fabric, chemicals, trucks, instruments, microelectronics, jewelry manufacturing, software development, food processing, brandy

Exports: $1.157 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Exports - commodities: pig iron, unwrought copper, nonferrous metals, diamonds, mineral products, foodstuffs, energy

Exports - partners: Germany 18.3%, Netherlands 14.1%, Belgium 13.3%, Russia 13.1%, Israel 7%, US 6.1%, Georgia 5.1%, Iran 4.9% [2006]

Imports: $2.714 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Imports - commodities: natural gas, petroleum, tobacco products, foodstuffs, diamonds

Imports - partners: Russia 21.8%, Ukraine 7.8%, Belgium 7.6%, Turkmenistan 7.1%, Italy 6.1%, Germany 5.7%, Iran 5.7%, Israel 4.8%, US 4.5%, Georgia 4.1% [2006]

Currency (code): dram [AMD]

Exchange rates: drams per US dollar - 344.06 [2007], 414.69 [2006], 457.69 [2005], 533.45 [2004], 578.76 [2003]

Airports: 12 [2007]

Railways: total: 839 km
broad gauge: 839 km 1.520-m gauge [828 km electrified]
note: some lines are out of service [2006]