<P> Georgia is located in the mountainous South Caucasus region of Eurasia , straddling Western Asia and Eastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea . Georgia 's northern border with Russia roughly runs along the crest of the Greater Caucasus mountain range -- a commonly reckoned boundary between Europe and Asia . In Philip Johan von Strahlenberg 's 1730 definition of Europe , which was used by the Russian Tsars and which first set the Urals as the eastern border of the continent , the continental border was drawn from the Kuma - Manych Depression to the Caspian Sea , thereby including all of Georgia ( and the whole of the Caucasus ) in Asia . </P>
<P> Georgia is located in the mountainous South Caucasus region of Eurasia , straddling Western Asia and Eastern Europe between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea . Georgia 's northern border with Russia roughly runs along the crest of the Greater Caucasus mountain range -- a commonly reckoned boundary between Europe and Asia . In Philip Johan von Strahlenberg 's 1730 definition of Europe , which was used by the Russian Tsars and which first set the Urals as the eastern border of the continent , the continental border was drawn from the Kuma - Manych Depression to the Caspian Sea , thereby including all of Georgia ( and the whole of the Caucasus ) in Asia . </P>
the continent that georgia is a part of
the continent that georgia is a part of
Eurasia , straddling Western Asia and Eastern Europe
Eurasia , straddling Western Asia and Eastern Europe