Where is the Republic of Dagestan?

About the Republic of Dagestan:  

• It is a province of Russia, within the Russian Federation.
• It is one of 22 republics that are part of Russia.
• Dagestan, which translates as "land of the mountains", is situated in the eastern part of the North Caucasus.
• Borders:
  • Dagestan has Georgia and Chechnya to the west and Azerbaijan to the south.
  • To its east is the Caspian Sea.
• Population: About 3.2 million.
• Religion: The majority of Dagestanis are Sunni Muslims.
• Capital:
  • The capital, Makhachkala, is located on Dagestan's Caspian Sea coast.
  • Makhachkala was conquered by the Russian Imperial Army in the 19th century. It was a major pre-revolutionary trading port.
• Ethnicity:
  • It is Russia's most ethnically and linguistically varied region and home to at least 40 different ethnicities. More than 30 languages are spoken here. 
  • It is sometimes known as the Mountain of Languages or Mountain of Nationalities, with some national groups occupying no more than one or two villages.
  • The Avars are the largest ethnicity. They form about a fifth of the population in the province.
  • After the Avars, there is a sizeable presence of Dargins, Kumyks, and Lezgins. 
  • About 10 percent of the population is ethnically Russian.
• For almost a decade until 2017, Russian security forces were battling an armed insurgency conducted by an array of Islamist militant groups in Dagestan, neighbouring Chechnya, and Ingushetia.
• In present times, Dagestan is a conduit for major oil and gas pipelines going from the Caspian Sea to the Russian heartland. Dagestan itself has oil and gas reserves.