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Republic of area 29,800 sq km,11,500 sq mi
capital Yerevan towns Kumayri (formerly
Leninakan).
physical mainly mountainous (including Mount
Ararat), wooded features State Academia
Theater of Opera and Ballet; Yerevan Film
Studio head of state Levon Ter-Petrossian
from 1990 head of government Gagik Arutyunyan
from 1991 political system emergent democracy
political parties Armenian Pan-National
Movement (APM), left of center; Armenian
Revolutionary Federation (ARF), centrist
products copper, molybdenum, cereals, cotton,
silk currency Russian ruble population (1992)
3,426,000 (90% Armenian, 5% Azeri, 2%
Russian, 2% Kurd).
language Armenian religion traditionally
Armenian Christian.