City
Yerevan
Capital of Armenia
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- Yerevan Cascade; Mount Ararat; Republic Square; Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral; Yerevan Opera Theatre; Hrazdan River; circular public parks; Armenian
- Viewpoint
- Favor the classic elevated viewpoint from the upper terraces of the Cascade or Victory Park (Haghtanak Park) looking south across the city, showing the terrace gardens and stone balustrades in the foreground, the pink tuff roofscape and Opera Theatre in the middle-ground, and the snow-capped majesty of Mount Ararat rising in the background.
- Palette
- Green should be the predominant color, especially in the Circular Park green belt, parklands around the Opera, Cascade garden terraces, and Hrazdan gorge vegetation.
- Guarded against
- Not a generic Caucasian or Middle Eastern town
Population1,144,700Wikidata: 1,054,698
Coordinates40.18°N, 44.51°E
Elevation987 m
Area227 km²
Time zoneAsia/YerevanUTC+4
Solar noon13:02clock runs 1.0 h ahead of the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Yerevan and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands — 1,753 km from the exact antipodal point.
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| Mosul | IQ | 444 km |
| Al Mawşil al Jadīdah | IQ | 445 km |
| Erbil | IQ | 446 km |
| Diyarbakır | TR | 448 km |
| Baku | AZ | 457 km |
| Kirkuk | IQ | 524 km |
Twinned cities
- Amman JO
- Antananarivo MG
- Astana KZ
- Athens GR
- Beirut LB
- Bratislava SK
- Buenos Aires AR
- Chisinau MD
- Damascus SY
- Delhi IN
- Isfahan IR
- Kyiv UA
- Los Angeles US
- Minsk BY
- Montréal CA
- Moscow RU
- New Delhi IN
- Novosibirsk RU
- Odesa UA
- Podgorica ME
- Riga LV
- Rio de Janeiro BR
- Rostov-on-Don RU
- Saint Petersburg RU
- São Paulo BR
- Shanghai CN
- Sofia BG
- Tallinn EE
- Tbilisi GE
- Tehran IR
- Volgograd RU
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