Your place on the map of Armenia

A New Year project that brings Armenians together in one place, wherever they live. We made a digital map of Armenia with a limited number of places: 111,111, each 500×500 m. For 600 AMD you take a place and make your own New Year room on it: a little 3D room that you decorate and can change later. Anyone can open your place and look at your room. Your place also comes with one wish, which you write on a paper. On 31 December all the wishes burn together, in one day, live on YouTube and on our website.

600 AMD, paid once. For that you get your place on the map with its room, and one wish for the 31 December fire. The wish is included in the price: there is no extra payment for it. There are no other options and no hidden charges.

Your own place: one of the 111,111 places on the map of Armenia, 500×500 m each. You choose a free place and decorate your room on it: a tree, a sofa, a fireplace, a cat and more. You can change the room later at any time. If you like, you can add your name (up to 30 characters) and a few words (up to 60 characters). Anyone can tap your place, open it and look at your room.

Our goal is to fill all 111,111 places before 25 December, so that as many of us as possible gather in one place for the New Year. 25 December is a goal, not a deadline: you can take a free place right up to the 31 December fire. The number of places on the current map is limited: when they are all taken, there are no free places left to take. This is only the beginning: join us, the surprises are still to come.

Right after you take your place, or later, whenever you like before the fire on 31 December, in the "Fire" tab on the map. You write it once, up to 120 characters. Every place has exactly one wish, and it is included in the price. If you saved your place before card payments opened, you can already write your wish; it will burn once your place is paid.

On 31 December. On that day all the wishes burn together in one shared fire, live on YouTube, and the fire is also shown on our website. There is no stream before 31 December. After your wish has burned, your personal page shows its number, a replay of it burning and an image to share. The rooms and the fire are computer animation: no real paper is burned.

Only if you allow it and it passes our check. You can choose to keep your wish private: it still burns, only its number is shown. The fire is public, so we don't show names of real people, phone numbers, links or insults; if your wish contains them, it still burns, but the text is hidden from public view. Your text is always visible to you on your personal page.

No. Your place is a symbolic digital marker, simply a cell of a picture. You do not acquire any land, property or territory, or any right to a real place. The borders on the map are approximate, drawn from public map data, and say nothing about any legal or political borders.

Each place can belong to only one person: first come, first served. While you pay, the place is held for you for 30 minutes. If, rarely, someone else takes it at the same moment, we offer you the nearest free place or a full refund, whichever you prefer. If you saved your place before payments opened, it is not reserved, and if it is taken by then, we offer you the nearest free one.

Your place appears on the map right after payment and stays at least until 31 January 2027. After that we may keep the map as a read-only archive page or remove it. Anyone can tap your place and see your room, your name and words (once approved), the date, the province and the nearest town. Your email is never shown.

Of course. Find the village on the map, choose a free place and sign it however you like, for example "The Petrosyan family" or "With love, from the grandchildren". You can send the link and image of your place to the person you made it for. Just keep phone numbers, links and other people's private data out of your words, your name and your wish.

You pay on the bank's own secure payment page, not on our site, and your bank may ask for a confirmation code. We never see or store your card number. Your order is marked as paid only after the bank confirms the payment to us directly.

Visa, Mastercard and ArCa cards accepted by Ameriabank; the exact list is shown on Ameriabank's payment page. Most foreign cards work: you are charged in AMD and your bank converts the amount, sometimes with a small fee. Cards issued in Russia generally don't work with Armenian banks; in that case a relative or friend in Armenia can pay for you using the link to your order.

From every payment we set aside 20% for New Year gifts for children in Armenia who grow up without a family, in children's homes. We deliver the gifts from 25 to 30 December, together with bloggers trusted in Armenia, so that everyone can see where the money went. Afterwards we publish on the site what we bought and which children's homes received the gifts. We are not a charity but a for-profit company, and you are paying for a digital service. Giving 20% to gifts is our own choice, so it is not a donation from you and it is not tax-deductible.

Yes, if people in Armenia trust you. Register through the form on the "20% for gifts" page if you would like to come with us on one of the gift delivery days, 25 to 30 December, film it and tell your audience. We'll contact you.

Yes, in full, if your place didn't appear on the map, your wish didn't burn on 31 December through our fault, you didn't get your page, you were charged twice or something broke technically. Write to {{company.email}} within 14 days; the money returns to the same card, usually in 5–10 business days.

We keep only what we need: your wish, your room, your name or nickname and words, your email, and the payment status. We never see your card number, store only a one-way hash of your IP address, don't sell data and don't use ad trackers. You can ask us to delete your text at any time by writing to {{company.email}}.