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South Ossetia, [a] officially the Republic of South Ossetia or the State of Alania, [7] is a partially recognised [8] landlocked country in the South Caucasus. [9] It has an officially stated population of just over 56,500 people (2022), who live in an area of 3,900 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi), with 33,000 living in the capital city, Tskhinvali.
Belarusian lawmakers visited Abkhazia and South Ossetia in late 2009 to study the situation and decide to postpone decision to spring 2010. [143] South Ossetia asked for a symmetrical approach between them and Abkhazia. [144] In 2021, an OSCE expert estimated that Belarus might be one of the next countries to recognise Abkhazia. [145]
Map showing North and South Ossetia. Ossetia (/ ɒ ˈ s ɛ t i ə / ⓘ o-SET-ee-ə, less common: / ɒ ˈ s iː ʃ ə / ⓘ o-SEE-shə; Ossetian: Ирыстон or Ир, romanized: Iryston or Ir, pronounced) is an ethnolinguistic region located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians.
The Republic of South Ossetia – the State of Alania is a partially recognized state in the South Caucasus that declared independence from Georgia during the South Ossetia War (1991–1992). At the time, the Soviet Union had only just recently collapsed (in 1991).
Country Type Administrative divisions First-level Second-level Third-level Fourth-level+ Abkhazia: Unitary 7 districts (araion) 123 municipalities: South Ossetia: Unitary 4 districts Taiwan (Republic of China) Regional 6 special municipalities (zhíxiáshì) (+12 claimed) 2 (streamlined) provinces (shěng) [cl] (+33 claimed)
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
Transcontinental countries in North America or South America (depending on the boundary definition), classified as South American countries by the United Nations Statistics Division: Colombia (Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina) and Venezuela (Nueva Esparta, the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela [including Isla de Aves]).
Bajigata or Badzhigat (Georgian: ბაჯიგათა; Ossetian: Бадзыгат) is a settlement in the Dzau district of South Ossetia, Georgia. [ 1 ] See also