Sits on burning natural gas vents that have flamed continuously for millennia, giving it the name Land of Fire.
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Azerbaijan
Republic of Azerbaijan ยท Azษrbaycan
Asia
ยท Western Asia
0Population
86.6Kkmยฒ of land
$4.79KGDP / person
BakuCapital
- ISO codes
- AZ ยท AZE
- Density
- 116 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Azerbaijani, Russian
- Currency
- Azerbaijani manat (AZN)
- Dial code
- +994
- Internet domain
- .az
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 40.4020ยฐ N, 47.2110ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Azerbaijani
- UN region
- Western Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $48.05B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Azerbaijan stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
91st
of 242 ยท 0.13% of world population
Land area
115th
of 242 ยท 0.06% of world land
GDP per person
147th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
91st
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Azerbaijan
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 10,023,318 people, the 91st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.13 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 86,600 kmยฒ, making it the 115th largest country here - about 9.4 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 116 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Baku, at 40.40ยฐ N, 49.86ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 2,122,300.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Russia and Turkey.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Baku.
The currency is the Azerbaijani manat (AZN, symbol โผ).
Has 2 official languages: Azerbaijani and Russian.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Baku
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UTC+04:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Baku
Baki
40.3972ยฐ N, 49.8603ยฐ E
2.12M
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Azerbaijan.