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Georgia
Capital: Tbilisi
- Winemaking in Georgia goes back at least 8,000 years, and the country is described as the oldest wine-producing region in the world.
- Mount Shkhara, at 5,201 metres, is Georgia's highest peak. It sits in the Greater Caucasus range, where snow and ice remain year-round above 3,600 metres.
- The Black Sea coast has a subtropical climate with 1,000 to 2,000 millimetres of rain a year. Batumi gets about 2,500 millimetres.
- Vardzia's caves were carved into Erusheti Mountain in the second half of the 12th century. About 500 caves rise in up to nineteen tiers along the cliff above the Kura River.
- Svanetian tower houses were mostly built between the 9th and 12th centuries. Ushguli, a village in Upper Svaneti, has a high number of them.