Description
South Ossetia (officially the Republic of South Ossetia – the State of Alania, or the Tskhinvali Region), is a de facto sovereign state and disputed territory in the South Caucasus, in the northern part of the internationally recognised Georgian territory. It has a population of 53,000 people who live in an area of 3,900 km2, south of the Russian Caucasus, with 30,000 living in Tskhinvali.