Georgia (Georgian: საქართველო) is a country located in the Caucasus, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is bounded by the Black Sea to the west, by Russia to the north and east, by Turkey to the southwest, by Armenia to the south, and by Azerbaijan to the southeast. The country covers an area of 69,700 square kilometres (26,900 sq mi), and has a population of 3.7 million people (excluding the Russian-occupied Georgian territories).[10] Georgia is a representative democracy governed as a unitary parliamentary republic.[11][12] Tbilisi is its capital as well as its largest city, and is home to roughly a third of the Georgian population.