Nagorno-Karabagh
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Nagorno-Karabakh (Upper Karabakh), Artsakh (Արցախ)
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Location and extent of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (lighter color).
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| Religion | Christianity (Armenian Apostolic Church) |
| Area | |
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• Total
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4,400 km2 (1,700 sq mi) |
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• Water (%)
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negligible |
| Population | |
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• 2013 estimate
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146,573 |
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• 2010 census
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141,400 |
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• Density
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29/km2 (75.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | (UTC+4) |
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• Summer (DST)
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+5 (UTC) |
| Drives on the | right |
Nagorno-Karabakh is a landlocked region in the South Caucasus, lying between Lower Karabakh and Zangezur and covering the southeastern range of the Lesser Caucasus mountains. The region is mostly mountainous and forested.
Nagorno-Karabakh is a disputed territory, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but most of the region is governed by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, a de facto independent state with Armenian ethnic majority established on the basis of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Azerbaijan has not exercised political authority over the region since the advent of the Karabakh movement in 1988. Since the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994, representatives of the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group on the region's disputed status.
The region is usually equated with the administrative borders of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast comprising an area of 4,400 square kilometres (1,700 sq mi). The historical area of the region, however, encompasses approximately 8,223 square kilometres (3,175 sq mi).
The prefix Nagorno- derives from the Russian attributive adjective nagorny (), which means "highland". The Azerbaijani names of the region include the similar adjectives "dağlıq" (mountainous) or "yuxarı" (upper). Such words are not used in the Armenian name, but they have appeared in the official name of the region during the Soviet era as Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. Other languages apply their own wording for mountainous, upper, or highland; for example, the official name used by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in French is Haut-Karabakh, meaning "Upper Karabakh".
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