All about the country of Azerbaijan_ Azərbaycan▫
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Azerbaijan_ Azərbaycan▫▫▫
#General information:
☆ - Official name:
Republic of Azerbaijan ~ Azərbaycan Respublikası
☆- Capital: Baku ~ Bakou
☆- Official language: Azerbaijani (Latin letters)
☆- Religion: Islam (Shiite majority)
☆- State: Independent secular republic
☆- Government: Presidential
☆- Independence: August 30 (8) 1991 (Soviet Union)
☆- State motto: 🔥 (Persian fire symbol)
☆- Currency: Manat ~AZM
☆- Local time: +4 (Eastern Greenwich)
☆- Local phone code: + 994
☆- Lowest area: Caspian Sea coast (-28 meters).
#Name:
There is no agreement on the origin of the name. However, most references trace the name back to the ancient Persian language "Pahlavi-Medic":
- Atari-Bata: meaning "protected by the sacred fire"
- Adurbadagan: meaning "keeper of fire"
There are those who trace the name back to a Macedonian commander who accompanied Alexander the Great in his conquests called "Atropites" after whom it was named!!!
➖ Historical importance of Azerbaijan:
Azerbaijan is the home of the "Persian Zoroastrian religion" and therefore occupies a great place in ancient and modern Persian culture and history. Its founder "Zoroaster" lived in the period from
{650 BC ~ 500 BC}.
#Geography of Azerbaijan:
🔸➖ Location and borders:
_ Astronomical location: Longitudes = 44° East ~ 51° East
Latitudes = 38° North ~ 42° North
Geographic: Eurasia (Western Asia - Eastern Europe)
🔸➖ Borders: 2,648 km
- Armenia: 1,007 km (west)
- Iran: 756 km (south)
- Georgia: 480 km (northwest)
- Russia (Chechnya): 390 km (north)
- Turkey: 15 km (west of Nakhchivan region)
🔸➖ Area: 86,600 km2
Rank: 113th in the world / Percentage: 0.05% of the land
The Republic of Azerbaijan is divided into two parts:
- The main part of Country: 81,100 km2
- Nakhchivan / Nakhchivan enclave: 5,500 km2
➖ Coastline: 800 km (Caspian / Khazar Sea)
➖ Dimensions of Azerbaijan:
Maximum width from north to south: 400 km
Maximum width from east to west: 500 km
🔸➖ Administrative divisions:
The Republic of Azerbaijan includes 59 rayons (districts) and 11 cities that are not part of the districts, in addition to the Nakhichevan enclave, which is divided into 7 districts and one city.
#Topography of Azerbaijan:
➖ Land:
- Mountains: 40% of the country's area and are divided into three sections:
The Greater Caucasus Mountains, the Lesser Caucasus Mountains, and the Talish Mountains
- Plateaus: few
- Plains: large plains in the center of the country
- Islands: 4 islands in the Caspian Sea with an area of 30 km2
- The highest peak in the country: the peak of Mount "Bazarduzu" (4466 m)
➖ Water:
¤- Water percentage in the country: 1.6%
¤- Lakes: The largest lake is "Lake Sarysu" (67 km2)
¤- Rivers: 8350 rivers, 24 of which are more than 100 km long
And the longest river: the Kura River (1515 km) crosses the border
¤- Lowest depression in the country: - 28 m (Caspian Sea coast).
#Demography of Azerbaijan:
➖ Population: 10,014,575 people (2019 AD)
- Rank: 91 (globally) / - Percentage: 0.13% (globally)
- Population density: 121 people / km2
- Fertility: 2.09 (number of children in each family)
- Natural increase: 0.91% annually
➖ Azerbaijani diaspora (migration) in the world:
➖ Ethnicities:
- Turks (Azeris, Avars, Tatars) = 92%
- Caucasians (Lezighs, Talish) = 2.6%
- Armenians = 1.2%
- Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians) = 1.4%
- Other peoples: 2.8%
➖ Languages:
- Official language:
Azerbaijani ~ Azərbaycan dili (Turkish)
Writing: Latin letters since 1928 = 92.5% of the population
- Russian: 1.4%
- Armenian: 1.4%
- Other languages: 4.7%
➖ Religions:
- Islam:
96% (Shiites: 70% / Sunnis: 25%)
- Christianity (Russian Orthodox, Armenian and Georgian):
3% of the population
- Judaism: 0.02%
- Other religions (Zoroastrianism. Baha'i ...): < 1%
- No religion / atheism: < 1%
#Economy of Azerbaijan:
➖ Land exploitation:
➖ Agricultural products:
Grapes, grains, timber, tea, cotton
➖ Industry: Oil and natural gas, oil products,
Steel, iron ore, Cement, Chemicals, Textiles
➖ Minerals: Iron, Aluminum
➖ Exports: Fuels (Oil and Gas). Cotton
➖ Imports: Machinery, Electrical Appliances, Consumer Goods, Chemical Products.
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