Shahumyan Province

Shahumyan Շահումյան
Province
Capital	1991–1992 — Shahumyan 1993—2020 — Karvachar
Area
• Total	1,830 km2 (710 sq mi)
• Rank	Ranked 3rd
Population  (2013)
• Total	3,521
• Rank	Ranked 8th
• Density	1.9/km2 (5.0/sq mi)

Shahumyan Province (Armenian: Շահումյան, romanized: Shahumyan, also spelled Shaumyan and Shahumian) was a province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, de jure part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The capital of the province was Karvachar. Shahumyan Province had 17 communities of which one is considered urban and 16 are rural. Its bordered Martakert Province to the east, Kashatagh Province to the south, Gegharkunik and Vayots Dzor provinces of Armenia to the west and Dashkasan, Goygol and Goranboy districts of Azerbaijan to the north.

The western part of the province, corresponding to the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan, was controlled by Artsakh from 1993 to 2020, while the northern part, originally the Shahumyan District of the Azerbaijani SSR (now part of the Goranboy District), remained under Azerbaijani control from 1992 but was claimed by Artsakh. The Shahumyan District was located outside of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, but prior to the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, its population was mostly Armenian and was expelled during Operation Ring in 1991. While the Shahumyan region was not part of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, representatives from Shahumyan declared independence along with the oblast, and the proclamation of Artsakh includes the Shahumyan region within its borders.^[1]