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Gyumri

#991 in World

Armenia

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Population
122K
Coordinates
40.7942, 43.8453
Category
cities

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Gyumri is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city was known as Alexandropol, it became the largest city of Russian-ruled Eastern Armenia with a population above that of Yerevan.

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