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Armenia is a South Caucasian republic, bordering with Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Iran. It is a landlocked country with a total area of 29,740 km2, at a distance of about 145 km from the Black Sea, and 175 km from the Caspian Sea. It lies between 38°50' and 41°18' of northern latitude and between 43°27' and 46°37' eastern longitude, and measures 400 km along its main axis (north-west to south-east). Armenia is generally a mountainous country, having its lowest point of 375 m above sea level and culminating at 4095 m with an average altitude of 1850 m. Forty-four percent of the territory of Armenia are high mountainous areas, not suitable for inhabitation. The degree of land use is strongly unproportional. The zones under intensive development make 18.2% of the territory of Armenia with a concentration of 87.7% of total population. On these areas the population density exceeds several times the ecological threshold index (200 person/km2) reaching here up to 480–558...
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Fayvush, G., Aleksanyan, A., Bussmann, R.W. (2017). Ethnobotany of the Caucasus – Armenia. In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_18
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