Located in the Caucasus region, at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, in the Caucasus region, Georgia is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital and largest city is Tbilisi, founded in the 5th century AD by Vakhtang I Gorgasali, the monarch of the Kingdom of Iberia, on the banks of the Kura River. The country is divided into 9 regions, 1 city, and 2 autonomous republics, but de factoAbkhazia and South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia.
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