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The Ararat plain is one of the largest of the Armenian Plateau, stretches west of the Sevan basin, at the foothills of the Gegham mountains. In the north the plain borders on Mount Aragats
Mount Aragats

Mount Aragats is the highest point in Armenia located in the province of Aragatsotn Province, northwest from Yerevan. It is a standalone extinct stratovolcano with four main peaks forming the rim of the Volcanic crater, and is a popular destination for local alpinists....
, and in the south, on Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat is the tallest peak in east Turkey. This snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone is located in the Igdir Province, near the northeast corner of Turkey, west of the Iranian and south of the Armenian border....
. The Arax River divides it into two: the northern part lies in Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
, the southern part lies in Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
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The Ararat plain and the Sevan basin have the longest duration of sunshine on Earth - about 2,700 hours a year.






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The Ararat plain is one of the largest of the Armenian Plateau, stretches west of the Sevan basin, at the foothills of the Gegham mountains. In the north the plain borders on Mount Aragats
Mount Aragats

Mount Aragats is the highest point in Armenia located in the province of Aragatsotn Province, northwest from Yerevan. It is a standalone extinct stratovolcano with four main peaks forming the rim of the Volcanic crater, and is a popular destination for local alpinists....
, and in the south, on Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat is the tallest peak in east Turkey. This snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone is located in the Igdir Province, near the northeast corner of Turkey, west of the Iranian and south of the Armenian border....
. The Arax River divides it into two: the northern part lies in Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
, the southern part lies in Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
.

The Ararat plain and the Sevan basin have the longest duration of sunshine on Earth - about 2,700 hours a year. Alexandria in Egypt does not have many more; the shortest duration of sunshine is in mid-mountain areas of the forest zone (about 2,000 hours). In the foothills, there is hardly a sunless day between June and October.