The Zangezur Corridor is a large piece of flat and well-watered land in an otherwise rugged, arid region. It lies where the Lesser Caucasus Mountains, the Anatolian highlands and the Zagros Mountains meet. The Zangezur's relative arability makes it a valuable asset in its own right, but its true value is its role as a transport corridor. Whoever controls the Zangezur Corridor can project power into the Turkish sphere of influence in Anatolia, the Russian sphere of influence in the intra-Caucasus and directly into the Persian core territories. This small, seemingly forgotten patch of land has been the crossroads of regional competition since long before there were Turks and Russians. Currently, the Zangezur is not under singular political control. The bulk of the Armenian population lives in the Zangezur's northeastern quadrant, the corridor's most arable zone.