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C. Azerbaijan is bounded by Russia to the northeast, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, Iran to the south and the Caspian Sea to the east. Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia were part of the Russian Empire in the 19th Century and Soviet Union in the 20th Century. Iran and Ottoman Turkey ruled the three nations earlier.
D. Turkey has supported Azerbaijan’s claims to Nagorno-Karabakh ever since ethnic Armenian majority in Nagorno-Karabakh broke away in 1994. Azerbaijan and Turkey share a common ethnic background and can usually understand each others’ language. They also are majority-Muslim nations, while Armenia was the first country to make Christianity its state religion.
B. Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia are in the South Caucasus region which spans the southern portion of the Caucasus Mountains and their lowlands. The mountain range stretches from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea and is considered a border between the continents of Europe and Asia.
A. Azerbaijan was listed as an authoritarian regime in the 2022 Democracy Index compiled by the publishers of The Economist. Armenia rated a bit higher as a Hybrid regime, one plagued by some electoral fraud. In the Democracy Index, 59 nations are authoritarian, 48 are flawed democracies, 36 are hybrid regimes and 24 are full democracies.