Geghi ( hy, Գեղի) is a village in the

Kajaran Municipality Kajaran Municipality, referred to as Kajaran Community ( hy, Քաջարան Համայնք ''Kajaran Hamaynk''), is an urban community and administrative subdivision of Syunik Province of Armenia, at the south of the country. Composed of a group o ...

of the

Syunik Province Syunik ( hy, Սյունիք, ) is the southernmost province of Armenia. It is bordered by the Vayots Dzor Province to the north, Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic exclave to the west, Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran to the south. I ...

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...

History

The village had 570 inhabitants in 1959, 932 in 1970 and 1,115 inhabitants in 1979. T. Kh. Hakobyan, St. T. Melik-Bakhshyan, H. Kh. Barseghyan ''«Երևան»'' (Yerevan). Dictionary of Toponymy of Armenia and Adjacent Territories. vol. v. Yerevan, Armenia:

Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; hy, Երևանի Պետական Համալսարան, ԵՊՀ, ''Yerevani Petakan Hamalsaran''), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919 ...

1986. p.909

Population

The

Statistical Committee of Armenia The Statistical Committee of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի վիճակագրական կոմիտե) is the national statistical agency of Armenia. History The statistical institution started its main activities on 7 January 1922 and was ...

reported the community's population as 172 at the 2011 Armenian census, up from 138 in 2010, but down from 227 at the 2001 census.

Municipal administration

Geghi was previously a community which included the villages of Geghi,

Geghavank Geghavank ( hy, Գեղավանք, also Romanized as Geghavank’) is an abandoned village in the Kajaran Municipality of Syunik Province, Armenia. Geghavank is listed as unpopulated in the 2011 Armenian census. See also *Syunik Province Refere ...

Kard A kard ( fa, کارد, kārd, knife) is the equivalent in the Persian language for knife. In the specialist jargon, Kard is considered a type of knife found in the Persianate societies like Persia, Turkey, Armenia and all the way to India. Most ...

Kitsk Kitsk ( hy, Կիցք), is an abandoned village in the Kajaran Municipality of Syunik Province of Armenia. The National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia (ARMSTAT) reported that it was uninhabited at the 2001 and 2011 censuses. At the 2 ...

Verin Geghavank Verin Geghavank ( hy, Վերին Գեղավանք) is an abandoned village in the Kajaran Municipality of Syunik Province of Armenia. Population Statistical Committee of Armenia The Statistical Committee of Armenia (Armenian language, Armenia ...

and

Karut Karut ( hy, Քարուտ); is an abandoned village in the Kajaran Municipality of Syunik Province of Armenia. Population 600 people lived in the village in 1987. Statistical Committee of Armenia The Statistical Committee of Armenia (Armenian: ...

, until the June 2017 administrative and territorial reforms, when the village became a part of the

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References

Populated places in Syunik Province {{Syunik-geo-stub