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Armenia, tourism

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Armenia is a landlocked mountainous country (29,743 km2 or 11,490 miles2) located in the Southern Caucasus between the Black and Caspian Seas. It borders Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Turkey (Figure 1), with a population of three million (2011). Armenia possesses the second largest reserves of copper in the world. The GDP per capita was about US$7400 in 2012.

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  1. Armenian State University of Economics, Yerevan, Armenia

    Artak Manukyan

  2. Department of Tourism Recreation and Sport Management, University of Florida, 925 NW 56th Terrace, Gainesville, 32605, USA

    Artak Manukyan

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    Honggen Xiao

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Manukyan, A. (2014). Armenia, tourism. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_342-1

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