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Location:
Southwest
part of Azerbaijan (had no common border with Armenia)
Territory:
4,
400 square km (1700 sq miles)
Population
- At present:
estimated to be around 100,000-160,000
- Before the conflict:
185,000 (1989)
National
composition
- At present:
100% Armenian
- Before the conflict:
75% Armenian, 25% Azeri (1989)
Refugees
-Azerbaijan:
200,000
-Armenia:
229,000
(by other reports 300,000-400,000)
Internally Displaced
Persons (IDP’s)
-Azerbaijan
(“mainland”): 650,000+
-Armenia:
almost
none
-Armenians in
Mountainous Karabakh: approximately
15,000
-Nakhichevan
AR of Azerbaijan:
almost none
Losses from
both sides during the conflict
-Killed:
25,000-30,000
Other impacts:
--ethnic cleansing
committed against Azeris in Armenia and in the occupied 20 % of Azerbaijan;
--partial ethnic
cleansing against the Armenian population in the rest of Azerbaijan;
--billions of
dollars of economic damage resulting from war destruction, embargo policies,
--environmental
pollution etc. to both countries.
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In brief 
