The Caucasus is a region located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, spanning parts of Southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. It features the Caucasus Mountains, which serve as a natural barrier between Europe and Asia. Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe, is found in the Western Caucasus. The region consists of the North Caucasus and the South Caucasus, with the Greater and Lesser Caucasus mountain ranges dividing these areas. The Caucasus is noted for its linguistic diversity, home to several language families, including Indo-European, Turkic, Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, and Northeast Caucasian.
Image Credit | By Bourrichon – fr:Bourrichon with English translations, additions, and corrections by Ketone16 (partly following Yuri Koryakov) – Own work ;Topographic data from the NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM3 v.2) (public domain) edited with 3DEM, reprojected in UTM with GDAL (GDAL), and vectorized with Inkscape ; UTM projection ; WGS84 datum ; shaded relief (composite image of N-W, W and N lightning positions) ;Reference used for the additional data :* Rivers, cities, railroads, routes, bathymetry : Demis add-on for World Wind (see the approval e-mail and the Demis forum) ;* Borders and coast : World data bank II ;Approximate scale of topographic data : 1:1,463,000 ;Note : The shaded relief is a raster image embedded in the SVG file., CC BY-SA 4.0 [Accessed 06/09/2025]
