TIME ZONE: Middle European, time difference between Armenia and Europe is +3 hours, with GB + 4 hours, with East Coast of the US +9 hours, with the West Coast of the US +12 hours.
OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of Armenia (RA).
NATIONAL FLAG OF RA: rectangular panel with three equal horizontal stripes of red, blue, orange from top to bottom.
CAPITAL OF ARMENIA: Yerevan.
NATIONAL CURRENCY: Dram (AMD).
POPULATION: The population of Armenia is about 2.9 million. The population of the capital is 1.1 million.
RELIGION: Christianity (Armenian Apostolic Church). Echmiadzin is the religious center of the country.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Armenian (Indo- European lingual family).
NATIONAL HOLIDAYS AND SIGNIFICANT DAYS: December 31 to January 2 - New Year, January 6 - Christmas, March 8 - Women's Day, April 7 - Mothers' and Beauty Day, April 24 - Armenian Genocide Victims Memorial Day, May 1- Labour Day, May 9 - Victory and Peace Day, May 28 - First Republic Day, June 1 - Children's Rights Protection Day, July 5 - Constitution Day, September 1 - Knowledge and Literature Day, September 21 - Independence Day, 1st Sunday in October - Teacher's Day, December 7 - Earthquake Victims Memorial Day.
FOOD: Thousands of secrets make up the fame of Armenian cuisine, hundreds of poems were written about it. Traditional Armenian bread is lavash, a very thin, lightly wrapping stripe of dough about one meter long, which is baked on the hot walls of the oven – tondir. One of the main dishes of Armenian cuisine is tolma, meat mince wrapped in the leaves of grape. Armenians like hot hors-d`oeuvre very much. One of them is basturma – meat, covered with hot crust (chaman), another is sudjukh – little flat meat sausage with different hot spicery. One of the most popular dishes is khorovats, pickled meat with different spices prepared on live coals.
HEAD OF THE STATE: President RA.
