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🇬🇪 Use CautionIs Georgia Safe for First-Time Travelers?
Safety Scores / Georgia
Travel verdict: Exercise Caution. The scores and risks below say why.
Safety Scores
Key Risks
- Russian-occupied South Ossetia and Abkhazia; avoid these regions entirely
- Occasional political protests in Tbilisi that can turn confrontational
- Road safety is poor; traffic rules loosely followed
- Limited medical infrastructure outside Tbilisi
Travel Verdict: Exercise Caution
Avoid South Ossetia and Abkhazia completely; they are Russian-controlled breakaway regions
Private hospitals in Tbilisi are adequate; travel insurance essential for rural areas
Georgian Lari; ATMs available in cities; carry cash outside Tbilisi
Emergency: 112
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