2016: Status: Partly Free, Aggregate Score: 64, Political Rights: 3, Civil Liberties: 3
Georgia (Georgian: საქართველო, translit. sakartvelo) is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it 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. Georgia covers a territory of 69,700 square kilometers and its 2017 population is about 3.718 million. Georgia is a unitary, semi-presidential republic, with the government elected through a representative democracy.
Geographical type: Territory
Latitude: 42° N — Longitude: 43.5° E
Area: 69,700 km²
ISO 3166-2 code: GE
Measures of Freedom
2016: Status: Partly Free, Aggregate Score: 64, Political Rights: 3, Civil Liberties: 3
2019: 8.2, Rank: 40, Personal Freedom: 8.15, Economic Freedom: 8.26
2014: 7.98, Rank: 5
Articles
Explains Roberts' rationale for resigning from the Mont Pelerin Society, prompted in particular by events in South Ossetia
Examines U.S. government adversarial actions towards Russia and China through NATO, in the Middle East and in the Pacific
Examines how NATO and the U.S. implicitly encouraged the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili to suppress secessionists in South Ossetia
Podcasts
Interview with Wolf von Laer, CEO of Students for Liberty, to discuss the status of the liberty movement on college campuses
The introductory paragraph uses material from the Wikipedia article "Georgia (country)" as of 24 Jul 2018, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.