What is Shida Kartli?
{{Infobox settlement <!-- See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions --> |name = Shida Kartli |native_name = შიდა ქართლი |native_name_lang = ka |settlement_type = [[Mkhare|Mkhare (region)]] |image_map = Shida Kartli in Georgia (disputed hatched).svg |mapsize = 280px |map_caption = Overlapping borders of Shida Kartli region and [[South Ossetia]] |subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]] |subdivision_name = {{GEO}} |seat = [[Gori, Georgia|Gori]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://shidakartli.gov.ge/en/municipalities/index/1| title=City Gori| website=shidakartli.gov.ge| publisher=Government of Georgia| access-date=8 March 2018| archive-date=6 October 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006093205/http://shidakartli.gov.ge/en/municipalities/index/1| url-status=dead}}</ref> | parts_type = Municipalities | parts_style = para | parts = | p1 = 5 |leader_title = Governor |leader_name = Giorgi Khojevanishvili |area_total_km2 = 5729 |population_total = 263382 |population_as_of = 2014 census |population_density_km2 = auto |timezone = Georgian Time |utc_offset = +4 |time_zone_DST = |utc_offset_DST = |iso_code = GE-SK |footnotes = {{Note|population|a}} Without [[Occupied territories of Georgia|Russian occupied part of Shida Kartli]]. }} '''Shida Kartli''' is a region in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. The [[capital city]] is [[Gori, Georgia|Gori]]. Part of the region is under [[South Ossetia]]n control. It is in a lowland between the [[Greater Caucasus|Greater]] and [[Lesser Caucasus|Lesser]] Caucasus. The [[Ksani River]] is in the east. Shida Kartli is divided into 5 [[municipalities]]. The municipalities are: *[[Gori Municipality|Gori]] (Partly in