Ararat Province

Ararat Արարատ
Province
Location o Ararat athin Armenie
Coordinates: 39°55′N 44°43′E / 39.917°N 44.717°E / 39.917; 44.717
Kintra	Armenie
Caipital	Artashat
Govrenment
• Govrenor	Aramayis Grigoryan(2013)
Area
• Total	2096 km2 (809 sq mi)
Area rank	9t
Population  (2002)
• Total	252,665
• Rank	5t
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+04
• Summer (DST)	UTC+05
Postal code	0601-0823
ISO 3166 code	AM.AR
FIPS 10-4	AM02
Website	ararat.gov.am

Ararat (Armenie: Արարատ) is a province (marz) o Armenie wi its caipital in Artashat. Namit efter Munt Ararat, the province borders Turkey tae the wast an Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic tae the sooth. It surroonds the Karki exclave o Nakhichevan which haes been controlled bi Armenie syne its captur in Mey 1992 durin the Nagorno-Karabakh War.

Twa umwhile Armenie caipitals are locatit in this region (Artashat (Artaxata) an Dvin) as well as the Khor Virap monastery, significant as the place o Gregory the Illuminator's 13-year impreesonment an the closest point tae Munt Ararat athin Armenie borders.

Ararat borders the follaein marzer:

• Armavir - northwast
• Kotayk - north
• Gegharkunik - east
• Vayots Dzor - sootheast

Ararat an aw borders Yerevan in the north, atween its borders wi Armavir an Kotayk.

In 1993 an again in 1995, CYMA (Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia) operatit frae Ararat province, biggin commonty centres, renovatin schuils, managin a childer's day camp an distributin aid tae faimilies affectit bi the Nagorno-Karabakh War. CYMA co-foonders Airchbishop Hovnan Derderian an Ronald Alepian chose Ararat due tae its well-organisit youth muivement.

The province o Ararat consists o the follaein 97 commonties (hamaynkner), o which 4 (bauld in the table) are considered urban an 93 are considered rural.^[1] The diveesion belaw is bi raion, the admeenistrative subdiveesions o Armenie afore 1995.

• Ararat
• 
  Khor Virap Monastery
• 
  Apricot ferms
• 
  Arevshat kirk
• 
  Near the auncient ceety o Dvin
• 
  Ararat frae Nor Kyurin veelage

• Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census, Naitional Statistical Service o the Republic o Armenie

1. ↑ "RA Ararat Marz" (PDF). Marzes of the Republic of Armenia in Figures, 2002-2006. National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia. 2007. Cite has empty unkent parameter: |1= (help)

• Urartu
• Ayrarat