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Kutaisi
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Kutaisi is a city in the Imereti region of the Republic of Georgia, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the third largest in Georgia after Tbilisi and Batumi, with a population of 160,971 as of 2025. It lies 221 kilometers west of Tbilisi on the Rioni River and serves as the capital of Imereti. Historically one of Georgia's major cities, Kutaisi was the political center of ancient Colchis in the Middle Ages, capital of the Kingdom of Abkhazia and later the Kingdom of Georgia, and subsequently capital of the Kingdom of Imereti; from October 2012 to December 2018 it served as the seat of the Parliament of Georgia as part of an effort to decentralize the country's government.
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