Georgia–Russia border
| Georgia–Russia border Abkhazia–Russia border South Ossetia–Russia border | |
|---|---|
State Border of Georgia with Russian Federation. Blue line = border between Russia and Georgia. Green line = de-facto border between Russia and Abkhazia since 2008, Yellow line = de-facto border between Russia and South Ossetia since 2008. Green dotted line = de-facto border between Abkhazia and Georgia since 2008, Yellow dotted line = de-facto border between South Ossetia and Georgia since 2008. | |
| Characteristics | |
| Entities | Russia Georgia ( Abkhazia, South Ossetia) |
| Length | 594.9 km (Russia-Georgia, de-facto) 255.4 km (Russia-Abkhazia, de-facto) 70 km (Russia-South Ossetia, de-facto) |
| History | |
| Established | 1918, 1920 Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, Treaty of Moscow (1920) |
| Current shape | 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union |
The Georgia–Russia border is the state border between Georgia and Russia. It is de jure 920 km in length and runs from the Black Sea coast in the west and then along the Greater Caucasus Mountains to the tripoint with Azerbaijan in the east, thus closely following the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia. In 2008 Russia (and later four other states) recognised the independence of two self-declared republics within Georgia (Abkhazia and South Ossetia), meaning that in a de facto sense the border is now split into four sections: the Abkhazia–Russia border in the west, the western Georgia–Russia border between Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the South Ossetia–Russia border and the eastern Georgia–Russia border between South Ossetia and Azerbaijan. At present most of the international community refuse to recognise the independence of the two territories and regard them as belonging to Georgia.