Transport in Armenia

Armenia is pursuing funding from the Asian Development Bank to launch the construction of this infrastructure project.

[4] The completion of the project could establish a major commodities transit corridor and would serve as the shortest transportation route between Europe and the Persian Gulf.

[5] In June 2019, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani backed this project and stated that “we want the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to be connected to the Black Sea, and one of the ways to make this happen is through Iran, Armenia and Georgia.”[6] The capital city of Armenia, Yerevan, is serviced by the Yerevan Metro.

The system was launched in 1981, and like most former Soviet Metros, its stations are very deep (20–70 meters underground) and intricately decorated with national motifs.

[9] Approximately three times daily, buses depart from Yerevan Central Bus Station to Stepanakert, the capital of the partially recognized state of Artsakh.

[10] There are also scheduled bus routes which connect Yerevan with Kyiv, Moscow, Saint Petersburg as well as several other cities across Russia.

The "North-South Road Corridor Investment Program" is a major infrastructure project which aims at connecting the southern border of Armenia with its northern by means of a 556 km-long Meghri-Yerevan-Bavra highway.

[3][16] Armenia is pursuing further loans from China as part of the Belt and Road Initiative to complete the north–south highway.

Natural gas 3,838 km (2017) Cargo shipments to landlocked Armenia are routed through ports in Georgia and Turkey.

There are plenty of air connections between Yerevan and other regional cities, including Athens, Barcelona, Beirut, Berlin, Bucharest, Brussels, Damascus, Doha, Dubai, Istanbul, Kyiv, Kuwait City, London, Milan, Minsk, Moscow, Paris, Prague, Riga, Rome, Tehran, Tel-Aviv, Tbilisi, Vienna, Venice, and Warsaw, as well as daily connections to most major cities within the CIS region.

[9] Statistics show that the number of tourists arriving in the country by air transportation increases yearly.

[19] In December 2019, yearly passenger flow exceeded 3,000,000 million people for the first time in Armenia's history.

Meanwhile, the company Armenian Helicopters, based at Zvartnots Airport in Yerevan, offers charter flights within Armenia and to certain neighboring countries, including Georgia, Russia, and Turkey.

[25] Armenia cooperates in various international transport-related organizations and agreements, including the following:[26] This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook (2025 ed.).