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title: "Georgia — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Georgia: capital Tbilisi, area 69,700 km², population 3,935,766 (2025), currency lari. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/georgia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Georgia

**Georgia: Capital Tbilisi**

69,700 km² · 3,935,766 people (2025) · lari

The Greater Caucasus along the northern border reaches 5,193 m at Shkhara. Georgia has the deepest known cave in the world, Veryovkina in the Arabika massif, sounded to about 2,212 m. Grape pips and clay vessels found here date winemaking back roughly 8,000 years, the earliest known anywhere.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Tbilisi
- **Area:** 69,700 km² — 26,911 sq mi
- **Population:** 3,935,766 (2025)
- **Density:** 56.5 people per km²
- **Currency:** lari (GEL, ₾)
- **Official language:** Georgian
- **Time zone:** UTC+04:00
- **Calling code:** +995
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** GE · GEO
- **Continent:** Asia

## How it compares

- **By area:** 120 of 200
- **By population:** 130 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sierra Leone | 71,740 | 8,819,794 |
| Ireland | 70,273 | 5,484,367 |
| Georgia ← | 69,700 | 3,935,766 |
| Sri Lanka | 65,610 | 21,756,000 |
| Lithuania | 65,300 | 2,888,774 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Georgia?

Tbilisi

### What currency does Georgia use?

The lari (GEL).

### How big is Georgia?

69,700 km², or 26,911 square miles — 120 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Georgia drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Sierra Leone](https://atoneplace.net/country/sierra-leone/)
- [Ireland](https://atoneplace.net/country/ireland/)
- [Sri Lanka](https://atoneplace.net/country/sri-lanka/)
- [Lithuania](https://atoneplace.net/country/lithuania/)
- [India](https://atoneplace.net/country/india/)
- [China](https://atoneplace.net/country/china/)
- [Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country/indonesia/)
- [Pakistan](https://atoneplace.net/country/pakistan/)
- [Bangladesh](https://atoneplace.net/country/bangladesh/)
- [Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country/japan/)
- [Philippines](https://atoneplace.net/country/philippines/)
- [Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country/vietnam/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]