Information on Disaster Risk Reduction of the Member Countries

Formal Name: Republic of Armenia
Republic of Armenia is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Armenia shares its western border with Turkey, northern border with Georgia, eastern border with Azerbaijan and southern border with Iran. Land area is 29,000 square kilometers. Most of the terrain being covered with mountains and high plateau, the average altitude of the terrain is 1,800 meters high. The climate is highland continental with a hot summer and cold winter.
The capital of the Republic of Armenia is Yerevan. Of the 3 million people, 97.9 percent are the Armenian, 1.2 percent Yazidis, and 0.5 percent Russian.

94 percent of the disasters which occurred between 1986 and 2011 in Armenia were earthquakes. Flood, snowstorm and frost are the annual disasters. High wind and hail occurs every couple of years.