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Azerbaijan (pronounced /ˌæzərbaɪˈdʒɑːn/ ( listen); Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), formally the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası), is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to...

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Baku

Baku (Azerbaijani: Bakı), sometimes known as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bakou, is the capital, the largest city, and the largest port of Azerbaijan and all the Caucasus. Located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, the city consists of two...

Area:

260 km² (100 mi² )

Caucasus Mountains

The Caucasus Mountains is a mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region. The Caucasus Mountains are made up of two separate mountain systems: The Greater Caucasus Range extends from the Caucasian...

Kura River

Kura (Turkish: Kura, Azerbaijani: Kür, Georgian: მტკვარი - Mt'k'vari) is a river, also known from the Greek as the Cyrus in the Caucasus Mountains. Starting in north-eastern Turkey (formerly Georgian province of Tao), it flows through Turkey to...

Nakhichevan

The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Azerbaijani: Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası) is a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan. The region covers 5,363 km² and borders Armenia (221 km) to the east and north, Iran (179 km) to the south and west, and Turkey (15...

Area:

5,363 km² (2071 mi² )

Araks River

The Aras (also known as Araks, Arax, Araxi, Araxes, Araz, or Yeraskh;Azerbaijani: Araz Araz, Armenian: Արաքս or Երասխ, Persian: ارس, Turkish: Aras,Kurdish: Aras or Araz; Russian: Аракс); Latin: Aboras, is a river located in and along the countries...

Mingachevir

Mingachevir (Azerbaijani: Mingəçevir; also, Mengechaur, Mingächevir, Mingechaur, Mingechaurges, and Mingelchaur), sometimes spelled Mingecevir, is the fourth-biggest city in Azerbaijan with a population of about 100,000. It is known as city of...

Ganja

Ganja (Azerbaijani: Gəncə) is Azerbaijan's second-largest city. It was named Elizavetpol (Russian: Елизаветполь) in the Russian Empire, and Kirovabad (Russian: Кировабад) in the USSR. According to medieval Arab sources, the city of Ganja was founded...

Area:

110 km² (42.5 mi² )

Time zone(s):

Greenwich Mean Time

Sumqayit

Sumgayit (Azerbaijani: Sumqayıt; Russian: Сумгаит; also, Sumgait and Sumqayyt) is a city in Azerbaijan, located near the Caspian Sea, about 30 kilometres away from the capital, Baku. The city has a population of 357,900, making it the third-largest...

Area:

96 km² (37 mi² )

Neftchala

Neftchala (Neftçala) is a rayon on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Its name is Persian نفت چاله Naft-Chala and means oil trench. The Neftchala region was formed as district in the composition of Azerbaijan Republic on February 11, 1940. Until this...

Siazan

Siazan (Siyəzən) is an rayon in Azerbaijan, capital Siyəzən. The region is home to a significant community of Tats who speak the Tat language. The word Siyazan means "black female" in Tat.

Zardab

Zardab (Zərdab) is a rayon in Azerbaijan; its capital is Zardab. Zardab is a Persian word (زردآب Zardab) meaning Yellow Water.

Quba

Quba (also known as Guba and Kuba) is a rayon in northeastern Azerbaijan. The capital (Quba) is located on the Kudyal River at 41.37°N, 48.50°E. The fertile region surrounding Quba is best known for its production of apples and the city area of Quba...

Abşeron

Absheron Rayon (Azerbaijani: Abşeron, Russian: Апшерон), also spelled as Apsheron, is a rayon of Azerbaijan demarkated in 1963. Although it shares the same name as the Absheron Peninsula, the area covered by the rayon is not conterminous, being...

Stepanakert

Stepanakert (Armenian: Ստեփանակերտ; called Xankəndi by Azerbaijan; also rendered as Khankendi) is the largest city and capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), a de facto independent republic which is recognized as a part of Azerbaijan. The...

Ujar

Ujar (Ucar) is a rayon, or administrative district of Azerbaijan, situated to the south of Goycay, in the centre of the nation. This region contains the Ipek yolu Automobil line and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to the south of the Shirvan plain....

Shaki

Shaki (Azerbaijani: Şəki; until 1968 Nukha, Azerbaijani: Nuxa; also, Nucha, Noukha, Shäki, and Sheki) is a city in North-west Azerbaijan, in the rayon of the same name. Shaki is situated in northern Azerbaijan on the southern part of the Greater...

Lerik

Lerik is a town and rayon located near the Iranian border in southern Azerbaijan, between the tall mountains of the Talysh Mountains and the agricultural plain of the Lankaran Lowland. Lerik is mainly famous for the longevity of some of its citizens...

Agjabadi

Aghjabadi (Azerbaijani: Ağcabədi) is a rayon in central Azerbaijan with an administrative center in the town of Aghjabadi, which was the birth place of the famous Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov.

Agdam

Agdam (Azerbaijani: Ağdam, Armenian: Աղդամ Aghdam) is a rayon in southwestern Azerbaijan, and the same-named capital city of the rayon, which is currently a ghost town. At its height the town had over 160,000 residents, with its own airport. Because...

Agdash

Agdash (Azerbaijani: Ağdaş) is a rayon in central Azerbaijan. Agdash rayon consists of Leki settlement and 72 villages. This rayon has a favorable economic and geographic location. Turyan River and Kura River along South-West border extend through...

Agstafa

Agstafa (Azerbaijani: Ağstafa) is a rayon in northwestern Azerbaijan. Population-75,000

Agsu

Website http://agsu-ih.gov.az Agsu (Ağsu) is a raion in central Azerbaijan. According to some sources that Agsu city was founded by Nadir Shah, in 1735. The remainders of that city (“Ruined city”) is situated in the south of Agsu city. The name of...

Astara

Astara is a rayon in southeastern Azerbaijan. There are two main theories for the etymology of the city's name. One is that it derived from the Persian or Talysh word آهسته رو (Aste-ro or Aheste-ro), meaning "the place where the travel gets slower" ...

Ali Bayramli

Shirvan (Azerbaijani: Şirvan, prior to 1938 Zubovka, from 1938 to 2008, Ali Bayramli, Azerbaijani: Əli Bayramlı, and otherwise transcribed as Ali Bairamly, Ali-Bairamli, Ali-Bayramli, Ali-Bayramly, Äli Bayramlı, Ali Bajramli, Äli Bayramli, and Aly...

Naftalan

Naftalan is a sahar (city) in Azerbaijan, surrounded by the rayon of Goranboy. It is on an agricultural plain near the Lesser Caucasus Mountains. The word naftalan also means a petroleum product which can be obtained there. The word "Naftalan", can...

Shusha

Shusha (Azerbaijani: Şuşa), also known as Shushi (Armenian: Շուշի) is a town in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus. It has been under the control of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since its capture in 1992...

Yevlakh

Yevlakh (also Avlakh, Jewlach, Evlakh) (Azeri: Yevlax, Russian: Евла́х) is a small city in Azerbaijan, 265 km west of capital Baku. It is surrounded by, but administratively separate from, the rayon of the same name. The city forms a distinct...

Bilasuvar

Bilasuvar (Biləsuvar) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. It has been said that the ancient name was Pileh-Swar that in Persian means "the elephant-riding person " , named after one of the Buyid dynasty amirs. The name in Turkish means pure water falls, due...

Jabrayil

Jabrayil (Cəbrayıl) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. This region is now completely under the control of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, who have named it Jrakn, after capturing it during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Prior to the war, the population of the...

Dashkasan

Dashkasan (Daşkəsən) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. Population 30,418

Balakan

Balakan (Azerbaijani: Balakən) is a rayon of northwestern Azerbaijan, located between Georgia and Russia. It borders Georgia to south and Dagestan of Russia to east and north. There is an Azerbaijan-Georgia border crossing at Postbina in the rayon...

Beylagan

Beylagan (Beyləqan) is a rayon of Azerbaijan, with capital city being Beylagan. The 5th century Armenian historian Moses of Chorene states that this name is from the Persian name Payda-gharan (پایداقاران), that its meaning is not clear , but "-an"...

Davachi

Davachi (Dəvəçi) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. Its name appears to come from Azeri Dəvə (Camel) and çi (handler): "Camel handler". Chiraggala black (the) fortification (KhIV century) in the region (district) near (the) of village of your sound in the...

Barda

Barda (Bərdə) is a rayon of Azerbaijan, with capital city being Barda. There are 109 villages in the Rayon, with two being named Qazaxlar. Barda is well-developed agricultural rayon. The main agricultural sectors include grain and cotton growing....

Jalilabad

Jalilabad (Cəlilabad) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. The capital is the city of Cəlilabad (also spelled Jalilabad).

Fuzûlî

Fużūlī (فضولی) (or Fuduli) was the pen name of the Azerbaijani poet, writer and thinker Muhammad bin Suleyman (محمد بن سليمان) (c. 1483 – 1556). Often considered one of the greatest contributors to the Dîvân tradition of Azerbaijani literature,...

Gadabay

Gadabay (Azerbaijani: Gədəbəy; Russian: Гедабек, Гедабекский район, Gadabek; more common traditional Russian spelling Кедабек, Кедабекский район, Kedabek) is a rayon of Azerbaijan renowned for its potatoes and its gold fields. The famous Siemens...

Goranboy

Goranboy is a rayon of Azerbaijan. During the Soviet era the region was best known for the oil-cure sanatorium resort of Naftalan, though administratively Naftalan technically counts as an independent city. Naftalan is now starting to operate again...

Goychay

Goychay (Göyçay) is a rayon of Azerbaijan famous for its pomegranates. The average population density in the city equals to 140 persons per square km. The distance between Goychay rayon and capital Baku is 226 km. The rayon consists of a city and 55...

Hajigabul

Hajigabul (Hacıqabul) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. The name of the city and the biggest settlements in the district There are 31 habitation areas. One of them is city, 1 city-like settlement, 4 settlements and 25 villages. There are 15 administrative...

Kalbajar

Kalbajar (Azerbaijani: Kəlbəcər) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. Before the outbreak of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh in 1992, it was a predominantly Kurdish inhabited area. Kalbajar is a Kurdish name meaning Stone City. The entire region is now under...

Kurdamir

Kurdamir (Kürdəmir) is a rayon of Azerbaijan.

Lachin

Lachin (Azerbaijani: Laçın) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. The capital lies at Lachin city. However, since 1992 the region has been under the control of the unrecognized de-facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Armenia and has been renamed...

Masally

Masally (Masallı) is a rayon of Azerbaijan Republic. Formerly a part of the Talish-i Gushtasbi region of Persia. Population:192.500

Ismailli

Ismailli (İsmayıllı) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. Ismailly district was created with the center in the Ismailly village on November 21, 1931. Before the establishment of the district one of its part was within the Goychay province, another one within...

Imishli

Imishli (İmişli) is a rayon of Azerbaijan.

Lankaran

Lankaran (Lenkoran, Lənkəran) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. It surrounds but does not include the city of Lankaran, which is technically a separate administrative region. Archaeological excavations indicate that people have lived in the region since at...

Oguz

Oghuz (Azerbaijani: Oğuz) is a rayon (administrative division, equivalent of English county) of Azerbaijan. The population of the region consisted of Azerbaijanis. Following the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict of late 1980s, the Azerbaijanis expelled the...

Qabala

Qabala (Azerbaijani: Qəbələ) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. Its administrative center is the historic town of Qəbələ, which in ancient times was known as the capital of Caucasian Albania. Located here is a Soviet Era (1985) Qabala Radar — an early...

Qakh

Qakh (Azerbaijani: Qax), also Kakhi (from Georgian კახი) or sometimes Gakh (from Russian: Гах), is a rayon (district) in the north of Azerbaijan, on the border with Georgia. The region of Gakh is one of the ancient lands with historical past and one...

Qazakh

Qazakh (Azerbaijani: Qazax; also known as Kazakh or Gazakh) is a rayon of Azerbaijan. It has two exclaves inside Armenia, Yukhari Askipara and Barkhudarli, both of which came under Armenian control during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. In antiquity, this...