page_title: Maralik
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Maralik / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Town of Maralik, Shirak marz, Armenia.
context_page_description: Maralik, is a town and the centre of the urban community of Ani, in Shirak Province at the northwest of Armenia. As of the 2011 census, the population of the town is 5,398, down from 5,782 reported in the 2001 census. As per the 2016 official estimate, the population of Maralik is around 5,500.
context_section_description: Maralik is situated at the northwestern foot of Mount Aragats within the Shirak Plain, at a height of 1,720 meters above sea level, at a 24 km road distance south of the provincial centre Gyumri. The capital Yerevan is at a road distance of 98 km southeast of Maralik.
  Surrounded with dry steppes, Maralik has a humid continental climate, characterized with mild and cool summers and extremely cold and snowy winters. The average annual precipitation is 450 mm.
  The village of Dzorakap forms the southern border of the town.
caption: Maralik and the surrounding hills
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