Tbilisi is the capital city of Georgia (the country). The name refers to the city’s historic center, where the Arakish and Kura rivers meet, and it is used prominently for geography, travel, and cultural contexts. In English, it is pronounced with emphasis on the second syllable, and it carries light, unstressed vowels in the final syllables. The term is geographic proper noun and is widely used in international discourse.
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