page_title: Artik
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Artik / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Main view of en:Artik city. Русский: Панорама города ru:Артик
context_page_description: Artik, is a town and urban municipal community in the Shirak Province of Armenia. As of the 2011 census, the town had a population of 19,534. As per the 2016 official estimate, the population of Artik is around 18,800.
  Artik is famous for its tufa stones, mainly the pink and rosy colored tufa. It is the main centre of tufa and travertine production in Armenia.
context_section_description: Artik is situated at the northwestern foot of Mount Aragats within the Shirak Plain, at a height of 1,859 meters above sea level, at a 27 km road distance southeast of the provincial centre Gyumri. The capital Yerevan is located at a 67 km road distance southeast of Artik.
  Two rivers; Artikjur and Gomshadzor enter the town of Artik from the southeast, passing through the centre towards the northwest of the town, where they join together to form a tributary that flows into Mantash River.
  Artik is mainly surrounded with dry steppes, having a humid continental climate, characterized with mildly cool summers and extremely cold and snowy winters.
caption: Winter in Artik, March 2009
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