Republic of South Ossetia is located оn the southern slopes of the Main Caucasus Range in the area of 3900 square meters. Тhe capital is the city of Tskhinval.
One-tenth of the surface occupied by the Republic of the foothills.
The rest of the territory - the mountainous terrain height from 850 to 3938 meters above sea level.
The highest point - Mount Halatsa (3938 m).

Press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia



Murat Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, and Grigory Karasin, the State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, exchanged on September 29, 2016 ratifications of the Agreement on the frontier between the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation, signed in Moscow on February 18, 2015.

September 29, 2016, Tskhinval