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Practice Azerbaijan

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Azerbaijan

AZ / AZE   40.3°, 47.7°

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental landlocked country at the boundary of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia's republic of Dagestan to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Turkey and Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city.

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People are called
Azerbaijani
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+994
Capital
Baku
Population
10,180,770
Area
86,600 km2
Climate
Desert or arid
Government
Presidential republic
Currency
Azerbaijani manat
Languages
Azerbaijani 96.1%
Sells
crude petroleum, natural gas, refined petroleum, plastics
Sells to
Italy 37%, Turkey 19%, Israel 5%
Land borders
5: Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Russia ...
Drives on the
right
Calling code
+994
Founded
1991
Hemisphere
Northern

WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED

Azerbaijani

These are English demonyms for people from Azerbaijan. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.

Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)

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SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS

Civilizations, flags & standards

Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.

A sourced civilization and flag trail has not been added for Azerbaijan yet. No ancient flag is inferred from the modern one.

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Turning points

A curated timeline is not available yet. Explore the country's history and the historical figures below.

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Religion: state & society

An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.

Official status and a dated affiliation breakdown have not been checked for this country. The atlas's religion tags are not a population ranking.

BEYOND THE MAP

Azerbaijan in the study desk

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Where it is

Languages

Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.

Azerbaijaniofficial
96.1%

Largest cities

Baku  capital 2,351,300
Sumgayit 427,000
Ganja 330,663
Khirdalan 196,200
Yevlakh 127,400

Wars and conflicts

Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.

Climate and geography

dry, semiarid steppe

Landlocked. Northern hemisphere.

Figures from its history

Heydar Aliyev
Heydar Aliyev President, 1993-2003 Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev was an Azerbaijani politician who was a Soviet party boss in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 1969 to 1982, and the third president of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003.
Nizami Ganjavi
Nizami Ganjavi Medieval poet Nizami Ganjavi, Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī, was a 12th-century poet.

Checked facts

Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named, and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot quietly put the old value back.

  • Continents — Seven-continent model. A country spanning two continents is filed under the one containing its capital; the other is accepted too.
    The imported list was unordered and included overseas territory, so its first entry was not the continent the country is in.
    Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11