Arbo, Georgia
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Arbo
არბო | |
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  Arbo Location in Georgia | |
| Coordinates: 42°13′32″N 44°03′40″E / 42.22556°N 44.06111°E | |
| Country |  Georgia |
| Region | Shida Kartli |
| Municipality | Gori |
| Elevation | 920 m (3,020 ft) |
| Population (2014) | |
• Total | 293 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (Georgian Time) |
Arbo (Georgian: არბო) is a village in the Gori Municipality, Shida Kartli, Georgia. It lies on the right bank of the river Little Liakhvi, some 29 km north of the city of Gori. As of the 2014 census, the village had a population of 293,[1] with the ethnic Georgian majority (99,7%).[2]
Arbo houses a memorial museum of the 19th-century Georgian writer Niko Lomouri, a native of the village, and two churches of Saint George, one, a single nave basilica, built in the 10th century, and the other, a crossed domed design, built in the 19th century.[3]