Tiflis Governorate

Tiflis Governorate Тифлисская губерния
Governorate
Coat of arms
Administrative map of the Tiflis Governorate
Country	Russian Empire
Viceroyalty	Caucasus
Established	1846
Abolished	1917
Capital	Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi)
Area
• Total	40,861.03 km2 (15,776.53 sq mi)
Highest elevation (Mount Kazbek)	5,034 m (16,516 ft)
Population  (1916)
• Total	1,473,308
• Density	36/km2 (93/sq mi)
• Urban	40.90%
• Rural	59.10%

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Tiflis Governorate^[a] was a province (guberniya) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire with its administrative centre in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi). In 1897, it constituted 44,607 square kilometres (17,223 sq mi) in area and had a population of 1,051,032 inhabitants.^[1] Tiflis Governorate bordered Elizavetpol Governorate to the southeast, Erivan Governorate to the south, Kars Oblast to the southwest, Batum Oblast to the west, Kutaisi Governorate to the northwest, Terek Oblast to the north, Dagestan Oblast to the northeast, and after 1905, the Zakatal Okrug to the east. The governorate covered areas of central and southeastern Georgia, the partially recognised state of South Ossetia, most of the Lori Province of Armenia, small parts of northwestern Azerbaijan, and a minuscule southern part of Ingushetia of Russia.

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