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Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan , is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia . 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, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city.
The territory of what is now Azerbaijan was first ruled by Caucasian Albania and later various Persian empires. Until the 19th century, it remained part of Qajar Iran , but the Russo-Persian wars of 1804–1813 and 1826–1828 forced the Qajar Empire to cede its Caucasian territories to the Russian Empire ; the treaties of Gulistan in 1813 and Turkmenchay in 1828 defined the border between Russia and Iran. The region north of the Aras was part of Iran until it was conquered by Russia in the 19th century, where it was administered as part of the Caucasus Viceroyalty .
Azerbaijan is a unitary semi-presidential republic . It is one of six independent Turkic states and an active member of the Organization of Turkic States and the TÜRKSOY community. Azerbaijan has diplomatic relations with 182 countries and holds membership in 38 international organizations, including the United Nations , the Council of Europe , the Non-Aligned Movement , the OSCE , and the NATO PfP program. It is one of the founding members of GUAM , the CIS , and the OPCW . Azerbaijan is also an observer state of the WTO . (Full article... )
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Image 1 Gobustan rock art (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 2 Salt bag circa 1880, Karabakh (from
Culture of Azerbaijan )
Image 3 Soviet postage stamp commemorating Azerbaijani musical instruments (from
Culture of Azerbaijan )
Image 4 Mammad Amin Rasulzade , a founder and spokesperson of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918, was widely regarded as Azerbaijan's national leader. (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 5 Cut pomegranate (from
Culture of Azerbaijan )
Image 6 Late-19th-century rug market in Ganja (from
Culture of Azerbaijan )
Image 7 The Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 8 Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones (from
Geography of Azerbaijan )
Image 9 1996 Azerbaijani postage stamp commemorating Novruz (from
Culture of Azerbaijan )
Image 10 Early caliphates:
Muhammad, 622–632
Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661
Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750
(from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 11 Qajar-style painting of
mullahs with the shah (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 12 Ilham Aliyev in
Munich in 2010 (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 13 "Hounds and Jackals" game (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 14 Ismail I's empire (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 15 Arabic inscriptions on the surviving
Gate of Ganja (from
Culture of Azerbaijan )
Image 17 Pottery from Kul-Tepe I (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 22 Roman inscription in
Qobustan (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 24 The Maiden Tower, in Baku's
Old City (from
Culture of Azerbaijan )
Image 25 15th-century Shirvanshah mausoleum in Baku (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 26 Azerbaijani deputies to the 1907
Second Russian State Duma . Seated left is
Fatali Khan Khoyski ; seated right is
Khalil Khasmammadov . (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 27 1748 maps of Shirvan, the Caucasus and Persia (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 28 The Caucasus after the
Treaty of Gulistan , in which
Persia ceded most of its northern
khanates to
Russia after the
first Russo-Persian war (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 29 Ateshgah of Baku , a Hindu and Zoroastrian temple (from
Culture of Azerbaijan )
Image 30 Topographic map of Azerbaijan (from
Geography of Azerbaijan )
Image 31 Iran around 1900 (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 32 Baku's first film studio during the early 1920s (from
Culture of Azerbaijan )
Image 33 Shah Abbas I of Safavid at a banquet. Detail from a ceiling fresco, Chehel Sotoun palace, Isfahan. (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 34 Transcaucasia in the early 19th century (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 36 Battle-scene miniature in the
Palace of Shaki Khans (from
History of Azerbaijan )
Image 39 Heydar Aliyev during a 1997
Pentagon visit (from
History of Azerbaijan )
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Largest cities or towns in Azerbaijan
Rank
Name
Economic regions
Pop.
Rank
Name
Economic regions
Pop.
Baku Sumgait
1
Baku
Absheron
2,150,800
11
Khachmaz
Guba-Khachmaz
64,800
Ganja Mingachevir
2
Sumgait
Absheron
325,200
12
Aghdam
Upper Karabakh
59,800
3
Ganja
Ganja-Qazakh
323,000
13
Jalilabad
Lankaran
56,400
4
Mingachevir
Aran
99,700
14
Khankandi
Upper Karabakh
55,100
5
Lankaran
Lankaran
85,300
15
Agjabadi
Aran
46,900
6
Shirvan
Aran
80,900
16
Shamakhi
Daglig-Shirvan
43,700
7
Nakhchivan
Nakhchivan
78,300
17
Fuzuli
Upper Karabakh
42,000
8
Shamkir
Ganja-Qazakh
69,600
18
Salyan
Aran
37,000
9
Shaki
Shaki-Zaqatala
66,400
19
Barda
Aran
38,600
10
Yevlakh
Aran
66,300
20
Neftchala
Aran
38,200
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