Baku
Baku (Azerbaijani: Bakı) 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 | |
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 | ![]() |
Govrenment | |
• Mayor | Hajibala Abutalybov |
Area | |
• Ceety | 2130 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 |
Area code(s) | 12 |
Website | BakuCity.az |
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 | Dakar | Dakar Region | 1967[8][9] | |||
Italy | Naples | Campanie | 1972[10] | |||
Iraq | Basra | Basra Govrenorate | 1972[8] | |||
Bosnie an Herzegovinae | Sarajevo | Sarajevo Canton | 1975[8][9] | |||
Unitit States | Houston | Texas | 1976[11] | |||
Fraunce | Bordeaux | Aquitaine | 1979[8] | |||
Iran | Tabriz | East Azerbaijan Province | 1980[9] | |||
Turkey | Izmir | İzmir Province | 1985[12] | |||
Vietnam | Vũng Tàu | Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province | 1985[8] | |||
Unitit States | Honolulu | 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 original on 24 November 2007. Retrieved 17 Julie 2009.
- ↑ 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. 13 November 2009. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
- ↑ State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic: Transition from National to Transnational Company or Demand of Time? Archived 2012-01-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "The main directions of foreign relations of the executive authorities of Baku". Archived frae the original on 14 Julie 2007. Retrieved 15 Julie 2007.
- ↑ a b c d e Musa Gasymly (2005). "АЗЕРБАЙДЖАН В МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫХ КУЛЬТУРНЫХ СВЯЗЯХ(1946–1990 гг.)" [Azerbaijan's cultural affairs (1946–1990)]. Tbilisi: Artanuchi. Retrieved 4 Februar 2010.
- ↑ a b c "ВСЕ ОСТАЕТСЯ ЛЮДЯМ" [Everything remains for people]. 29 (19725). Vyshka. 25 Julie 2008. Retrieved 4 Februar 2010.
- ↑ Flexibe Solutions (26 October 2007). "Embassy of Azerbaijan Republic in Italy". Azembassy.it. Retrieved 17 Apryle 2010.
- ↑ Maud Beck (Winter 2006). "Sister Cities: Baku and Houston. Celebrating 30 Years as Sister Cities". Azerbaijan International: 68–71. Archived frae the original on 2 Februar 2010. Retrieved 4 Februar 2010. Unknown parameter
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ignored (help) - ↑ "Izmir Metropolitan Municipality". Izmir.bel.tr. Archived frae the original on 19 Julie 2011. Retrieved 17 Apryle 2010.
- ↑ [1] Archived 2012-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ (in Roushie)"Executive Power of the Baku City". Azerbaijan.az. Retrieved 8 Apryle 2008.
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