Sooth Ossetie

Sooth Ossetie (  or  ; , Khussar Iryston; , Samxret Oseti; , Yuzhnaya Osetiya) or Tskhinvali Region (, Tsxinvalis regioni; , Tskhinvalskiy region) is a disputit region an partly recognizit state i the Sooth Caucasus, locatit i the territory o the Sooth Ossetie Autonomous Oblast athin the umwhile Georgie Soviet Socialist Republic.
It has an officially statit population o juist over 56,500 fowk (2022), wha live i an area o , o the sooth side o the Greater Caucasus mountain range, wi 33,000 livin i the capital tawn, Tskhinvali. Only Russie, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Nauru, and Syrie recognise Sooth Ossetie as a sovereign state. Altho Georgie does na control Sooth Ossetia, the Georgian government an the United Nations consider the territory part o Georgia, whose constitution designates the area as "the former autonomous district o Sooth Ossetie", i reference to the Sooth Ossetian Autonomous Oblast disbandit i 1990.

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Category:Geografie o Ossetie
Category:Geografie o the Caucasus
Category:Roushie-speakin kintras an territories
Category:Unrecognisit or lairgely unrecognisit states
Category:Separatism in Georgie (kintra)
Category:Autonomous republics o Georgie (kintra)
Category:States an territories established in 1991
Category:Disputit territories in Europe
Category:Ossetie
Category:Roushie irredentism
Category:1991 establishments in Europe