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Basic facts of Azerbaijan
Official name: Republic of Azerbaijan
Capital: Baku (Baky)
Area: 86,600 sq km, 33,400 sq mi
Population: 8,177,717 (2008 estimate)
Population growth rate: 0.72 percent (2008 estimate)
Population density: 95 persons per sq km, 246 persons per sq mi (2008 estimate)
Urban/rural distribution:
Share urban 50 percent (2005 estimate)
Share rural 50 percent (2005 estimate)
Largest cities: Baku, Gäncä, Sumgayıt
Languages: Azeri, Russian, Armenian
Religious affiliations:
Muslim 84 percent
Nonreligious 11 percent
Russian Orthodox 4 percent
Other 1 percent
Life expectancy:
Total 66.3 years (2008 estimate)
Female 71 years (2008 estimate)
Male 62.2 years (2008 estimate)
Literacy rate:
Total 99.6 percent (1995)
Female 99.5 percent (1995)
Male 99.7 percent (1995)
Form of government: Republic
Total number of military personnel: 66,490 (2004)
Introduction:
Azerbaijan, republic in western Asia. Azerbaijan is the easternmost country in the South Caucasus (the southern portion of the region of the Caucasus), which occupies the southern part of the isthmus between the Black and Caspian seas. The country is bordered on the north by Russia, on the east by the Caspian Sea, on the south by Iran, on the west by Armenia, and on the northwest by Georgia. Azerbaijan also shares a short border with Turkey through its autonomous exclave of Naxçivan (Nakhichevan), which is separated from the rest of Azerbaijan by a mountainous strip of Armenian territory. Azerbaijan includes the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian-inhabited enclave in western Azerbaijan. In Azeri, the official state language, the country is called Azarbaijchan Respublikasy (Azerbaijan Republic). Baku, a large port city on the Caspian Sea, is Azerbaijan’s capital and largest city.
Official name: Republic of Azerbaijan
Capital: Baku (Baky)
Area: 86,600 sq km, 33,400 sq mi
Population: 8,177,717 (2008 estimate)
Population growth rate: 0.72 percent (2008 estimate)
Population density: 95 persons per sq km, 246 persons per sq mi (2008 estimate)
Urban/rural distribution:
Share urban 50 percent (2005 estimate)
Share rural 50 percent (2005 estimate)
Largest cities: Baku, Gäncä, Sumgayıt
Languages: Azeri, Russian, Armenian
Religious affiliations:
Muslim 84 percent
Nonreligious 11 percent
Russian Orthodox 4 percent
Other 1 percent
Life expectancy:
Total 66.3 years (2008 estimate)
Female 71 years (2008 estimate)
Male 62.2 years (2008 estimate)
Literacy rate:
Total 99.6 percent (1995)
Female 99.5 percent (1995)
Male 99.7 percent (1995)
Form of government: Republic
Total number of military personnel: 66,490 (2004)
Introduction:
Azerbaijan, republic in western Asia. Azerbaijan is the easternmost country in the South Caucasus (the southern portion of the region of the Caucasus), which occupies the southern part of the isthmus between the Black and Caspian seas. The country is bordered on the north by Russia, on the east by the Caspian Sea, on the south by Iran, on the west by Armenia, and on the northwest by Georgia. Azerbaijan also shares a short border with Turkey through its autonomous exclave of Naxçivan (Nakhichevan), which is separated from the rest of Azerbaijan by a mountainous strip of Armenian territory. Azerbaijan includes the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian-inhabited enclave in western Azerbaijan. In Azeri, the official state language, the country is called Azarbaijchan Respublikasy (Azerbaijan Republic). Baku, a large port city on the Caspian Sea, is Azerbaijan’s capital and largest city.
Baku,Azerbaijan
Baku is an ancient trading center located on the Abşeron Peninsula in Azerbaijan. The city contains valuable remains of Arabic and Persian architecture.
Azerbaijan Muslim people
Azerbaijan Muslim people are praying to Allah. Maximum people of Azerbaijan are Muslim.
Village in Azerbaijan
A village perches on a mountainside in a rural part of Azerbaijan. Much of Azerbaijan is mountainous.
Azerbaijan Horse Farm
Azeris use their ample pasturelands to raise a variety of livestock, including horses. Horses of the Karabakh breed are raised on this farm. Horses are still raised in areas of the former Soviet Union, partly because many Soviet-era farms continued to rely on draft animals.
Destruction in Azerbaijan
Beginning in the late 1980s, Azerbaijan and Armenia engaged in a destructive war over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave that is located in Azerbaijan but inhabited mostly by Armenians. Here, a battle in early 1992 reduced the village of Kirkijan to rubble.