42°39′27″N 44°38′43″E / 42.65750°N 44.64528°E
Kazbegi Municipality
ყაზბეგის მუნიციპალიტეტი | |
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| Country |  Georgia |
| Mkhare | Mtskheta-Mtianeti |
| Capital | Stepantsminda |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,081.7 km2 (417.6 sq mi) |
| Population (2014)[1] | |
| • Total | 3 795 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (Georgian Time) |
Kazbegi (Georgian: ყაზბეგის მუნიციპალიტეტი) is a district of Georgia, in the region of Mtskheta-Mtianeti in east-north Georgia.
The main settlement is Stepantsminda, accounting for about half of the total population.
Kazbegi Municipality is situated in the upper valley of the Terek River, which goes on to traverse the Georgia–Russia border to the north and eventually drains into the Caspian Sea in Dagestan, Russian Federation. By the conventional definition of the Europe-Asia boundary as following the watershed of the Greater Caucasus, Kazbegi Municipality is geographically a European part of Georgia.[2][3]
- ^ "Population Census 2014". www.geostat.ge. National Statistics Office of Georgia. November 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ^ Municipality of Kazbegi, north Khevsureti and Tusheti located in north of the Greater Caucasus Watershed, and this geographically in Europe, also mountains on Bezengi wall in upper Svaneti as Ushba and Tetnuldi.
- ^ "Country profiles".