. "Tiflis Governorate (Old Russian: \u0422\u0438\u0444\u043B\u0438\u0441\u0441\u043A\u0430\u044F \u0433\u0443\u0431\u0435\u0440\u043D\u0456\u044F; Georgian: \u10E2\u10E4\u10D8\u10DA\u10D8\u10E1\u10D8\u10E1 \u10D2\u10E3\u10D1\u10D4\u10E0\u10DC\u10D8\u10D0) was one of the guberniyas of the Russian Empire with its centre in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi, capital of Georgia). In 1897 it constituted 44,607 sq. kilometres in area and had a population of 1,051,032 inhabitants. The governorate used to border Elisabethpol Governorate, Erivan Governorate, Kutaisi Governorate, Zakatali okrug, Dagestan Oblast, Terek Oblast, and Kars Oblast."@en . .