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Georgia
Georgia Population: 4.6 mln
 Capital City: Tbilisi
 Area: 69,700 sq. km.
 Form Of Government: Presidential Parliament  
 Democracy
 Neighboring Countries: Turkey, Armenia, 
 Azerbaijan, Russia
 Natural Resources: Oil, coal, peat, manganese, 
 gold, silve, copper, zink, benronite clay, mineral  
 water

   •    Georgia is ranked by the World Bank as 18th  for ease of doing business.
  
•    Leader in CIS countries by economic freedom index  2007 (Heritage Foundation)
   •    Economic growth of  9.6% and 9.4% respectively in 2005 and 2006, in 2007 Georgian economy
        grew approx. by 12%.
   •    The World Bank hails Georgia as the top anticorruption performer in its 2006 "Anti-corruption in  
        Transition-3" (ACT3) report


Georgian exports exceeded 1bln US$ in 2007.
Main exporting industries: Scrap metal, winery, metal mining and production, Aircraft, mineral water and sugar.
Major trade partners are Turkey, FSU contries, EU, US, Great Britain.




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