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Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Nagorno-Karabakh
, officially the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
(
NKR
;
Lernayin Gharabaghi Hanrapetut'yun
),
Artsakh Republic
or
Republic of Artsakh
(
Arts'akhi Hanrapetut'yun
), is a republic in the
South Caucasus
recognised
only by
three non-United Nations (UN) states
. Recognised by the UN as part of
Azerbaijan
, Nagorno-Karabakh controls most of the territory of the former
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
and
some of the surrounding area
, giving it a border with
Armenia
to the west and
Iran
to the south.
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