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Located between western Asia and eastern Europe, Georgia shares its borders with Russia to the north; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey to the south; and the Black Sea to the west. Its de jure territory is 69,700 m2. The country’s population was approximately 4.5 million as of 2011, with over a million living in the capital city Tbilisi. Eighty-four percent of the population is ethnic Georgian. Other major ethnic groups are Abkhazians, Ossetians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Russians, Kurds, and Greeks. Over 300,000 citizens are displaced from Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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Calculations are based on the World Bank World Databank, government expenses as a share of GDP and public spending on education as % of GDP. Reference year is 2007.
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Andguladze, N., Mindadze, I. (2015). Georgia. In: Hörner, W., Döbert, H., Reuter, L., von Kopp, B. (eds) The Education Systems of Europe. Global Education Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07473-3_18
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