Key facts
- Country
- Armenia
- Province
- Syunik
- Municipality
- Meghri
- Total
- 2.5 km (0.97 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 660 m (2,170 ft)
- Density
- 1,300/km (3,300/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+4 ( AMT )
- Area code
- (+374) 286
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Encyclopedic overview
Agarak (Armenian: Ագարակ) is a town in the Meghri Municipality of the Syunik Province in southern Armenia, founded in 1949. As of 2011, the population of Agarak was 4,429 and the population of Agarak as of 2022 was 3,210.
The town is located on the left bank of river Araks River, 9 km southwest of Meghri on the Armenia–Iran border. The border crossing at Agarak is Armenia's sole border crossing with Iran, with the Iranian village of Nurduz located across the border. The town had a railway station on the demolished and non-functioning branch of the Yerevan-Nakhchivan-Horadiz railway.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agarak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.