Baku
Baku (Azerbaijani: Bakı, Badkuba/ Persie: بادکوبا ,Baraca/ Persie: باراکا , Pakovan/Armenie: Պակովան[2]), whiles kent as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bakou, is the caipital, the lairgest ceety, an the lairgest port o Azerbaijan an entire Caucasus. Locatit on the soothren shore o the Absheron Peninsula, the ceety consists o twa principal pairts: the dountoun an the auld Inner Ceety (21.5 ha). Datin tae antiquity, its urban population at the beginnin o 2009 wis estimatit at juist ower twa million fowk.
Baku Bakı | ||
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Ceety | ||
  Clockwise: Details o the façade o the Ismailiyya biggin, Philharmony Foontain in front o the Magomayev Philharmonic Hall, a veshel on the Bay o Baku wi the skyline o the ceety, an the Maiden Touer – clickable eemage | ||
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  Baku Location in Azerbaijan | ||
| Coordinates: 40°23′43″N 49°52′56″E / 40.39528°N 49.88222°ECoordinates: 40°23′43″N 49°52′56″E / 40.39528°N 49.88222°E | ||
| Kintra |  Azerbaijan | |
| Govrenment | ||
| • Mayor | Hajibala Abutalybov | |
| Area | ||
| • Ceety | 2,130 km2 (820 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | -28 m (−92 ft) | |
| Population (2020) | ||
| • Ceety | 2,293,700[1] | |
| • Density | 1,057/km2 (2,740/sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 3,125,000[3] | |
| • Metro | 5,105,200 | |
| Demonym(s) | Bakuvian[4]Azerbaijani: Bakılı | |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (AZST) | |
| Postal code | AZ1000 | |
| Aurie code(s) | 12 | |
| Wabsteid | BakuCity.az | |
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Baku is dividit intae eleiven admeenistrative destricts (raions) an 48 tounships. Amang thir are the tounships on islands in the Baku Bay an the toun o Oil Rocks biggit on stilts in the Caspian Sea, 60 km (37 mi) away frae Baku. The Walled Ceety o Baku alang wi the Shirvanshah's Palace an Maiden Touer wur inscribed as a UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid in 2000. Accordin tae the Lonely Planet's rankin Baku is an aa amangst the warld's tap ten destinations for urban nichtlife.[5]
The ceety an aa serves as the main financial hub o Azerbaijan. Mony sizeable Azerbaijani facilities hae thair heidquarters thare, includin SOCAR, ane o the warld's tap 100 companies.[6]
Internaitional relationsEedit
Twin touns an sister ceetiesEedit
Baku is twinned wi:[7][in chronological order]
| Kintra | Ceety | State / Province / Region / Govrenorate | Date | |||
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Senegal | 
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Dakar | 
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Dakar Region | 1967[8][9] |
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Italy | 
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Naples | 
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Campanie | 1972[10] |
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Iraq | Basra | Basra Govrenorate | 1972[8] | ||
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Bosnie an Herzegovinae | 
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Sarajevo | 
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Sarajevo Canton | 1975[8][9] |
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Unitit States | Houston | 
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Texas | 1976[11] | |
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Bordeaux | 
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Aquitaine | 1979[8] |
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Iran | Tabriz | East Azerbaijan Province | 1980[9] | ||
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Turkey | Izmir | İzmir Province | 1985[12] | ||
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Vietnam | Vũng Tàu | Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province | 1985[8] | ||
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Unitit States | Honolulu | 
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Hawaii | 1998[13] | |
Pairtnership relationsEedit
Pairtnership relations an aa exist at different levels wi:[14] Berlin, Paris, Aiberdeen, Vienna, Stavanger, Tbilisi, Astana, Minsk, Moscow, Volgograd, Kizlyar, Tashkent an Chengdu.
ReferencesEedit
- ↑ https://www.stat.gov.az/source/demoqraphy/?lang=en
- ↑ "Administrative, density and territorial units and land size by economic regions of Azerbaijan Republic for January 1. 2007". Archived frae the oreeginal on 2007-11-24. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- ↑ Demographia: World Urban Areas Archived 5 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine – Demographia, 2016
- ↑ Thomas de Waal (2010). The Caucasus: An Introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 16. ISBN 0-19-975043-2.
- ↑ "Travel Picks: Top 10 cities to party the night away". Reuters. 2009-11-13. Retrieved 2009-11-21.
- ↑ State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic: Transition from National to Transnational Company or Demand of Time?
- ↑ "The main directions of foreign relations of the executive authorities of Baku". Retrieved 2007-07-15.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Musa Gasymly (2005). "АЗЕРБАЙДЖАН В МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫХ КУЛЬТУРНЫХ СВЯЗЯХ(1946–1990 гг.)" [Azerbaijan's cultural affairs (1946–1990)]. Tbilisi: Artanuchi. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "ВСЕ ОСТАЕТСЯ ЛЮДЯМ" [Everything remains for people]. 29 (19725). Vyshka. 25 July 2008. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
- ↑ Flexibe Solutions (26 October 2007). "Embassy of Azerbaijan Republic in Italy". Azembassy.it. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ↑
Maud Beck (Winter 2006). "Sister Cities: Baku and Houston. Celebrating 30 Years as Sister Cities". Azerbaijan International: 68–71. Archived frae the oreeginal on 2 February 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2010. Unknown parameter
|deadurl=ignored (help) - ↑ "Izmir Metropolitan Municipality". Izmir.bel.tr. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ↑ [1][deid airtin]
- ↑ (in Roushie)"Executive Power of the Baku City". Azerbaijan.az. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
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