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{{Infobox country
| conventional_long_name = Republic of Armenia
| common_name = Armenia
| native_name = {{small|Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն<br />{{native name|hy|Hayastani Hanrapetut’yun}}}}
| image_flag = Flag of Armenia.svg
| image_coat = Coat of arms of Armenia.svg
| national_motto = 
| national_anthem = <br />[[Mer Hayrenik|Մեր Հայրենիք]]<br />''Mer Hayrenik''<br />{{smaller|"Our Fatherland"}}<br />[[File:Mer Hayrenik |instrumental.ogg|center]]
| image_map = Armenia (orthographic projection).svg
| image_map2 = Armenia - Location Map (2013) - ARM - UNOCHA.svg
| capital = [[Yerevan]]
| coordinates = {{Coord|40|11|N|44|31|E|type:city}}
| largest_city = capital
| official_languages = [[Armenian language|Armenian]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Constitution of Armenia, Article |20|url=http://www.president.am/en/constitution-2015/ |publisher=president.am}}</ref>
| national_languages = 
| languages_type = 
| languages_sub = 
| languages = 
| languages2_type = 
| languages2_sub = 
| languages2 = 
| ethnic_groups = {{Unbulleted list |98.1% [[Armenians]] |&nbsp;&nbsp;1.2% [[Yazidis in Armenia|Yazidis]] |&nbsp;&nbsp;0.4% [[Russians in |Armenia|Russians]] |&nbsp;&nbsp;0.3% other<ref>Asatryan, Garnik; Arakelova, Victoria (Yerevan 2002). |[https://web.archive.org/web/20110511044234/http://www.hra.am/file/minorities_en.pdf The Ethnic Minorities in Armenia]. Part of the [[Organization for |Security and Co-operation in Europe|OSCE]].  |at [[WebCite]] (16 April 2010).</ref><ref>Ministry of Culture of Armenia [http://mincult.am/datas/media/azg.poqr.%20ev%20xorhurd%20mshak.nax.%20(1).doc |"The ethnic minorities in Armenia. Brief information"] {{Wayback|url=http://mincult.am/datas/media/azg.poqr.%20ev%20xorhurd%20mshak.nax.%20(1).doc |date=20171010143439 }}. As per the most recent census in 2011. [http://mincult.am/national_minority.html "National minority"].</ref>}}
| ethnic_groups_year = 2011
| religion = [[Armenian Apostolic Church]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.am/parliament.php?id=constitution&lang=eng|title=National Assembly of |the Republic of Armenia - Official Web Site - parliament.am|website=www.parliament.am}}</ref>
| religion_year = 
| demonym = [[Armenians|Armenian]]
| government_type = {{nowrap|[[Unitary state|Unitary]] [[Parliamentary system|parliamentary]]}} [[republic]]
| leader_title1 = [[President of Armenia|President]]
| leader_name1 = [[Armen Sarkissian]]
| leader_title2 = [[Prime Minister of Armenia|Prime Minister]]
| leader_name2 = [[Nikol Pashinyan]]
| leader_title3 = [[President of the National Assembly of Armenia|President of the National Assembly]]
| leader_name3 = [[Ara Babloyan]]
| legislature = [[National Assembly (Armenia)|National Assembly]]
| sovereignty_type = Formation and independence
| established_event1 = Traditional date
| established_date1 = 2492 BC
| established_event2 = [[Hayasa-Azzi]]
| established_date2 = 1500–1290 BC
| established_event3 = [[Shupria|Arme-Shupria]]<ref>[[David Marshall Lang|Lang, David Marshall]]. ''Armenia: Cradle of Civilization''. London: Allen and |Unwin, 1970, p. 114. {{ISBN|0-04-956007-7}}.</ref><ref>Redgate, Anna Elizabeth. ''The Armenians''. Cornwall: Blackwell, 1998, pp. 16–19, 23, 25, 26 |||(map), 30–32, 38, 43 {{ISBN|0-631-22037-2}}.</ref>
| established_date3 = 14th century–1190 BC
| established_event4 = [[Urartu]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Redgate |first=A. E. |title=The Armenians |year=2000 |publisher=Blackwell |location=Oxford |isbn=0-631-22037-2 |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e3nef10a3UcC&dq |edition=Reprint |quote=However, the most easily identifiable ancestors |of the later Armenian nation are the Urartians.}}</ref>
| established_date4 = 860–590 BC
| established_event5 = [[Orontid dynasty]]
| established_date5 = 6th century BC
| established_event6 = {{nowrap|[[Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)|Kingdom of Greater<br />Armenia]] united under<br />the [[Artaxiad Dynasty]]<ref>{{cite |book |editor1-last=de Laet |editor1-first=Sigfried J. |editor2-last=Herrmann |editor2-first=Joachim |title=History of Humanity: From the seventh century |B.C. to the seventh century A.D. |date=1996 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-92-3-102812-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?|id=WGUz01yBumEC&pg=PA128 128] |edition=1st |quote=The ruler of the part known as Greater Armenia, Artaxias (Artashes), the founder of a new dynasty, |managed to unite the country...}}</ref><!--end nowrap:-->}}
| established_date6 = 190 BC<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia Americana: Ankara to Azusa |date=2005 |publisher=[[Scholastic Library Publishing]] |page=393 |quote=It was named for Artaxias, a general of Antiochus the Great, who founded the kingdom of Armenia about 190 B.C.}}</ref>
| established_event7 = [[Arsacid dynasty of Armenia|Arsacid dynasty]]
| established_date7 = 52–428
| established_event8 = [[Bagratid Armenia]]
| established_date8 = 885–1045
| established_event9 = [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia|Kingdom of Cilicia]]
| established_date9 = 1198–1375
| established_event10 = [[First Republic of Armenia]] [[Declaration of Independence of Armenia (1918)|declared]]
| established_date10 = <br />28 May 1918
| established_event11 = [[Independence Day (Armenia)|Independence]] from the [[Soviet Union]]
| established_date11 = 21 September 1991
| area_km2 = 29,743
| area_rank = 138th
| area_sq_mi = 11,484 <!--Do not remove per [[WP:MOSNUM]]-->
| percent_water = 4.71<ref name="cia-fact">{{cite web|title=The World Fact Book – Armenia |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-|factbook/geos/am.html |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |accessdate=17 July 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719074837/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/am.html |archivedate=19 July 2010 |deadurl=no |df=dmy}}</ref>
| population_estimate = {{UN_Population|Armenia}}{{UN_Population|ref}}
| population_census = {{nowrap|{{decrease}} 3,018,854<ref name="Armenia information">{{cite web |url=http://www.armstat.am/file/doc/99475033.pdf |title=Statistical Service of Armenia|publisher=Armstat |accessdate=20 February 2014}}</ref><ref name="News.am">{{cite news |title=Armenia Population |url=http://countrymeters.info/en/Armenia |agency=countrymeters.info}}</ref><!--end nowrap:-->}}
| population_estimate_year = {{UN_Population|Year}}
| population_census_year = 2011
| population_census_rank = 134th
| population_density_km2 = 101.5
| population_density_sq_mi = 262.9 <!--Do not remove per [[WP:MOSNUM]]-->
| population_density_rank = 99th
| GDP_PPP = {{nowrap|$28,282 billion<ref name="IMF GDP">{{cite web|title=Report for Selected Countries and |Subjects|url=http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2018/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?|sy=2017&ey=2017&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&pr1.x=43&pr1.y=12&c=911&s=NGDPD%2CPPPGDP%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPPC&grp=0&a=|work=[[World Economic Outlook]] |Database, April 2018|publisher=[[International Monetary Fund]]|accessdate=17 January 2018|location=Washington, D.C.|date=4 October 2017}}</ref><!--end |nowrap:-->}}
| GDP_PPP_year = 2017
| GDP_PPP_per_capita = $9,456<ref name="IMF GDP"/>
| GDP_nominal = {{nowrap|$11,548 billion<ref name="IMF GDP"/>}}
| GDP_nominal_year = 2017
| GDP_nominal_per_capita = $3,861<ref name="IMF GDP"/>
| Gini = 31.5 <!--number only-->
| Gini_year = 2013
| Gini_change = <!--increase/decrease/steady-->
| Gini_ref = <ref name=WB1>{{cite web |url= http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI |title= Gini index |publisher=[[World Bank]] |accessdate= 12 |May 2016}}</ref>
| Gini_rank = 
| HDI = 0.743 <!--number only-->
| HDI_year = 2015 <!--Please use the year to which the data refers, not the publication year-->
| HDI_change = increase<!--increase/decrease/steady-->
| HDI_ref = <ref name="HDI">{{cite web |title=Human Development Report 2016 |year=2016 |publisher=United Nations |accessdate=28 September 2017 |url=http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/2016_human_development_report.pdf}}</ref>
| HDI_rank = 84th
| currency = [[Armenian dram|Dram]]&nbsp;([[Armenian dram sign|֏]])
| currency_code = AMD
| time_zone = [[Armenia Time|AMT]]
| utc_offset = +4
| drives_on = right
| calling_code = [[Telephone numbers in Armenia|+374]]
| patron_saint = [[Gregory the Illuminator|St. Gregory]]
| cctld = {{unbulleted list |[[.am]] |[[.հայ]]}}
}}
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'''Armania''' waa wadan [[Dhul xiran]] oo ku yaalo, bariga [[Yurub]] iyo galbeedka [[Aasiya]].

Ermeniya: Հայաստան, translit. Hayastan, IPA: [hɑjɑstɑn]), si rasmi ah Jamhuuriyadda Armenia (Erman: ermen: Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն, translation. Hayastani Hanrapetut'yun, IPA: [hɑjɑstɑni hɑnɾɑpɛtutʰjun]), waa waddan ku yaal gobolka Koofurta Caucasus ee Eurasia. Waxaa ku yaala galbeedka Aasiya ee ku yaala Jasiiradaha Erman, waxaa xuduud la leh Turkiga galbeedka, Georgia waqooyiga, xaqiiqda madaxbannaan ee Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraadiga ah iyo Azerbaayadaha bari, iyo Iran iyo Azerbaijan oo ka baxsan Nakhchivan koonfurta.

Ergayga Ergaygu waa mid madaxbannaan, badan oo xisbi qaran oo leh dhaqan dhaqameed. Urartu waxaa la aasaasay 860 BC iyo qarnigii 6aad ee BC waxa lagu beddelay Satrapy Armenia. Boqortooyada Armenia waxay gaartay heerkeedii Tigranes ee Weyn ee qarnigii 1aad ee qarnigii 21aadna waxay noqotay waddanka ugu horreeya ee dunida oo dhan lagu dhaqmo diinta rasmiga ah ee dabayaaqada 3aad ama horraantii 4aad AD.  Taariikhda rasmiga ah ee aqbalaadda dawlad-goboleedku waa 301. Boqortooyada Ereyga ah ee qadiimka ah ayaa kala qaybisay Byzantine iyo Sasanian Empires wareeggii qarnigii 5aad. Sida ku xusan barxada Bagratuni, Boqortooyada Bagratid ee Armenia waxaa lagu soo celiyay qarnigii 9aad. Diidmada oo ay sababtay dagaallada ka dhanka ah Beniantiin, boqortooyadu waxay ku dhufteen 1045, Ereyga waxaa ugu dambeeyay markii ay soo weerareen Turjubaanka Turki. Ereyga Ereyga ah iyo Boqortooyada Ciliga Armenia waxay ku taallaa xeebta badda Mediterranean intii u dhaxaysay qarniyadii 11aad iyo 14aad.