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States mostly or entirely in West Asia, but commonly associated with Europe, and a member of the Council of Europe: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, and Turkey. States with limited recognition , entirely in West Asia, but commonly associated with Europe: Abkhazia , North Cyprus , and South Ossetia .
Armenia, [c] officially the Republic of Armenia, [d] is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. [ 12 ]
The only countries listed either straddle continents or are on a continent border.) ... Bolivia / Brazil / Chile / Paraguay ... Armenia: Asia: Azerbaijan / Georgia ...
This is a list of countries with territory that straddles more than one continent, known as transcontinental states or intercontinental states. [1]Contiguous transcontinental countries are states that have one continuous or immediately-adjacent piece of territory that spans a continental boundary, most commonly the line that separates Asia and Europe.
The African and European mainlands are non-contiguous, and the delineation between these continents is thus merely a question of which islands are to be associated with which continent. The Portuguese Atlantic island possession of the Azores is 1,368 km (850 mi) from Europe and 1,507 km (936 mi) from Africa, and is sometimes grouped with Europe.
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted.
See Armenia–Brazil relations. Armenia has an embassy in Brasília. Brazil has an embassy in Yerevan. Brazil recognized the Armenian genocide in 2015. There are between 80,000- 100,000 people of Armenian descent living in Brazil. [76] Canada: 31 January 1992: See also Armenia–Canada relations, Embassy of Armenia in Ottawa, Armenian Canadian
Monument to the victims of the Armenian genocide in São Paulo, Brazil. The first Armenians arrived in Brazil in the late 1800s. [2] The biggest wave of migration to Brazil took place in the 1920s when several thousands Armenians came to Brazil (mainly from Lebanon and Syria) many having survived the Armenian genocide which was carried out by the Ottoman Empire. [1]