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While Georgia was part of the Soviet Union the population grew steadily, rising from less than 4 million in the 1950s to a peak of 5.5 million in 1992 (including Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region). [17] From 1992 the population began to decline sharply due to civil war and economic crisis driven mass migration throughout the 1990s and into the ...
The population of Georgia totaled 3,688,647 as of 2022, [313] [e] a decrease from 3,713,804 in the previous census in October 2014. [314] [e] The population declined by 40,000 in 2021, a reversal of the trend towards stabilization of the last decade and, for the first time since independence, the population was recorded to be below 3.7 million.
This is a list of the cities and towns (Georgian: ქალაქი, k'alak'i) in Georgia, according to the 2014 census data and the population by cities and boroughs data of the National Statistics Office of Georgia. [1] The list does not include the smaller urban-type settlements categorized in Georgia as daba (დაბა).
Georgia considers Abkhazia as its autonomous republic, whose government sits in exile in Tbilisi, and currently an occupied territory. Abkhazia's territory, in the Kodori Valley, which had been under Georgia's control prior to the Russo–Georgian War of 2008, is de jure the self-governing community of Azhara. [2]
It is the most populous city in Georgia, with a 2020 U.S. census population of just over 498,000. [44] The state has seventeen cities with populations over 50,000, based on official 2020 U.S. census data. [44] Along with the rest of the Southeast, Georgia's population continues to grow rapidly, with primary gains concentrated in urban areas.
The country has a total area of approximately 67,000 square kilometres (25,900 sq mi), and a population (as of 2014) of 3.7 million people.. In addition, there are a small number of mostly ethnic Russian believers from two dissenter Christian movements: the ultra-Orthodox Old Believers, and the Spiritual Christians (the Molokans and the Doukhobors).
The Muslims constitute from 9.9% (463,062) [2] to 11% [3] of Georgia's population. There are two major Muslim groups in Georgia. The ethnic Georgian Muslims are Sunni Hanafi and are concentrated in the Autonomous Republic of Adjara of Georgia bordering Turkey.
The municipalities were first established in 2006. Most of them were successors to the earlier subdivisions, known as raioni (რაიონი), 'districts'. In addition, new municipalities were formed to govern those settlements in the disputed entities of Abkhazia and South Ossetia that at the time remained under Georgia's control.