Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Republic) is one of the Eurasian states, located in Eastern Transcaucasia on the coast of the Caspian Sea. It is the largest (by area) country among the countries of the Transcaucasian region and borders on Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Iran. Baku is the capital of the state; the other largest settlements are the cities of Ganja, Lenkoran, and Nakhichevan.
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The main water artery of Azerbaijan is the Kura River, which also supplies numerous irrigation canals (the most important is the Mingachevir reservoir). The Republic of Azerbaijan has enormous tourism potential. Beach holidays (Khudat, Baku, Khachmaz), ski resorts (Mount Shahdag), treatment with mineral and thermal waters (Ganja, Naftalan, Massaly), as well as excursion tours to many cultural, historical and architectural attractions (Palace Mosque in Baku) are actively developing here , Maiden Tower, Vagif Mausoleum, Carpet Museum and many others). The Gobustan Nature Reserve and the Icheri-Sheher quarter in the capital of the country are included in the list of sites under special protection of UNESCO.
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The administrative division of the state consists of 66 districts, 11 cities of republican significance and the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic - a special region in the country. It has common borders with Turkey and Iran, the border with Armenia is closed. Communication with other regions of Azerbaijan is carried out by air. The bulk of the country's population is Azerbaijanis; the other most numerous ethnic groups are Lezgins, Armenians and Russians. The main religion is Islam, Orthodoxy and Judaism are also common, and there are representatives of Protestantism. The territory of Azerbaijan has parts controlled by Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (until now unrecognized) - exclaves. The government of the republic maintains diplomatic relations with many countries of the world: Russia, the USA, Kazakhstan, Iran, Turkey, Italy and others. The state is a member of a number of major international organizations (UN, OSCE, Council of Europe, CIS, GUAM and others), as well as an active participant in the Partnership for Peace program implemented by NATO.
Among the mineral resources, deposits of natural gas and oil, copper ore, gold, alunites, etc. are of primary importance; marble, kaolin, and tuff are mined. The central place in the economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan is occupied by such industries as oil production and oil refining industries, gas production, chemical and mining industries, mechanical engineering and non-ferrous metallurgy, food and light industries. In agriculture - viticulture, vegetable growing, fruit growing, sheep breeding, cattle breeding for meat and dairy, and poultry farming.
The country widely uses roads and railways, which usually run parallel to each other and are parts of the largest transport routes in Europe: for example, the lines leading to neighboring Iran are of great economic importance. Azerbaijan has a fairly developed network of international and domestic airlines, with direct ferry connections to the city of Turkmenbashi in Turkey, as well as other ports on the Caspian Sea coast.
It has absorbed a very diverse flora and fauna: steppes, semi-deserts, alpine meadows, bears, lizards and reptiles. The capital of the state is the beautiful city of Baku, which is recommended for tourists to visit.
The country has preserved a large number of ancient cultural monuments: the old city, the ruins of the ancient city of Kabala and much more. The most favorable tourist period begins in April and ends in October. Visitors to the country can purchase souvenirs and jewelry.
Azerbaijan is famous for its national cuisine. The main feature is the widespread use of lamb in combination with various spices or herbs. Tourists can also try dried fruits and sour milk dishes with herbs. This truly historic and magnificent place is worth a visit.
Azerbaijan on the world map
Below is an interactive map of Azerbaijan in Russian from Google. You can move the map left and right, up and down with the mouse, and also change the scale of the map using the “+” and “-” icons, which are located at the bottom on the right side of the map, or using the mouse wheel. In order to find out where Azerbaijan is located on the world map, use the same method to reduce the scale of the map even further.
In addition to the map with the names of objects, you can look at Azerbaijan from a satellite if you click on the “Show satellite map” switch in the lower left corner of the map.
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AZERBAIJAN
(The Republic of Azerbaijan)
General information
Geographical position. Azerbaijan is a state in the Transcaucasus region in western Asia. In the north it borders with Russia, in the northwest with Georgia, in the south with Iran, and in the west with Armenia. In the east it is washed by the waters of the Caspian Sea. Azerbaijan belongs to the Nakhichevan region, separated from the republic by the territory of Armenia.
Square. The territory of Azerbaijan occupies 86,600 sq. km. >
Main cities, administrative divisions. The capital of Azerbaijan is Baku. Largest cities: Baku (1,853 thousand people), Ganja (278 thousand people), Sumgayit (235 thousand people). Azerbaijan is divided into 61 regions.
Political system
Azerbaijan is a republic. The head of state is the president, the head of government is the prime minister. The highest legislative body is the parliament (Majlis).
Relief. Approximately half of the territory of Azerbaijan is occupied by mountains: in the north there is the Greater Caucasus ridge, in the southwest there is the Lesser Caucasus ridge. The highest point of the country is Mount Bazarduzu on the Main, or Watershed, Ridge (height 4,466 m). In the middle part of the country there is the Kura-Araks lowland, in the southeast there is the Lenkoran lowland.
Geological structure and minerals. The country's subsoil contains reserves of oil, iron ore, and non-ferrous metals.
Climate. The climate of the country varies in different regions: from subtropical in the Len-Koran lowland to arid in the mountainous regions.
Inland waters. There are up to 1,250 small rivers in Azerbaijan. Most of the rivers belong to the basin of the Kura River, the largest river in the Caucasus. There are 250 lakes in the republic, most of which are insignificant. The largest lake is Hajikabul (area 15.5 sq. km). On the northeastern slope of the Murovdag ridge there is a group of picturesque lakes of landslide-dammed origin, among which is one of the most beautiful lakes in the Caucasus, Lake Goygol.
Soils and vegetation. The soils are predominantly grey-earth, in the mountains brown and brown mountain-forest and mountain-meadow; on the Lenkoran lowland there are yellow soils. Vegetation of dry steppes, semi-deserts, high mountain meadows; There are broad-leaved forests in the mountains.
Animal world. The forests are home to bear, deer, lynx, and wild boar. In arid zones there are a large number of lizards, poisonous snakes and other reptiles.
Population and language
The population of Azerbaijan is about 7.855 million people. Although Azerbaijan is a multiethnic country, the number of Azerbaijanis has grown sharply in recent years due to the influx of refugees from neighboring Armenia as a result of the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict. Many representatives of other nationalities (Armenians, Russians) left Azerbaijan both because of the above-mentioned conflict and because of the turbulent situation in the country as a whole. Ethnic groups: Azerbaijanis - 90%, Dagestanis - 3.2%, Russians - 2.5%, Armenians - 2.3%, Lezgins, Kurds, Tatars, Georgians, Ukrainians and Avars. Languages: Azerbaijani (state), Russian, Turkish.
Religion
Mainly Shia Muslims - 93.4%, various forms of Orthodoxy are practiced by Georgian, Russian and Armenian minorities.
Brief historical sketch
The territory of present-day Azerbaijan in the 8th century. BC e. was settled by the Medes and later became part of the Persian Empire. At the end of the 7th century. n. e. the country was conquered by the Arabs, who brought Islam here. In the XI and XII centuries. the territory was controlled by Turkic tribes; in the 17th century. Azerbaijan again became part of Persia. According to the treaties of 1813 and 1828, it went to Russia.
In 1918, Azerbaijan became an independent state. In 1920, the country was proclaimed a Soviet Socialist Republic and in 1922, together with Georgia and Armenia, became part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (TSFSR). In 1936, after the collapse of the Trans-SFSR, Azerbaijan became part of the USSR as a union republic. On August 30, 1991, Azerbaijan declared independence.
Brief Economic Sketch
Leading industries: oil and gas production, oil refining, chemical and petrochemical (mineral fertilizers, synthetic rubber, tires), mechanical engineering (including chemical and petroleum, electrical and radio-electronic industries, instrument and machine tool building, ship repair), ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, mining of iron ore and alunite. Light (including cotton ginning, cotton, silk, wool, carpet weaving), food (including canning, tea, tobacco, wine) industries. Crops of grain, fodder, industrial crops. The main industrial crops are cotton, tobacco, and tea. Early vegetable growing, subtropical fruit growing. The main branches of livestock farming are sheep breeding, dairy and beef cattle breeding, and poultry farming. Sericulture.
The monetary unit is manat.
Brief sketch of culture
Art and architecture. Baku. Old town of the 9th century; Ishe-ri-Sheher fortress and minaret, built in 1078; Khan's palace of the 17th century Tabriz. The Blue Mosque of 1465, famous for its remarkable glazed decoration.
The science. X. Amirkhanov (1907-1986) - physicist who discovered the effect of thermal rectification.
Literature. Nizami Ganjavi (c. 1141-c. 1209) - poet and thinker, author of “Khamsa” (a cycle of 5 poems): “Treasury of Secrets”, “Khosrow and Shirin”, “Leili and Majnun”, “Seven Beauties” and “ Iskander-name"; Muhammad Fizuli (1494-1556), Azerbaijani lyric poet (3 collections of ghazals, qasidas, rubai; political satire “Book of Complaints”); Mirza Akhundov (1812-1878) - educational writer, philosopher, who influenced the development of social thought of the peoples of the Middle East (the comedies “Molla Ibrahim Khalil, the Alchemist”, “Monsieur Jordan, the Botanist”, “Hadji Kara”, the story “Deceived Stars” ).
Music. U. Hajibeyov (1885-1948) - composer, founder of the professional musical art of Azerbaijan (operas “Leyli and Majnun”, “Korogly”, musical comedy “Arshin Mal Alan”), cantatas, symphonic works, etc.
Azerbaijan is located in the eastern part of Transcaucasia and is the largest country in this region. It borders with Russia, Armenia, Georgia and Iran, and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic also borders with Turkey. On this page, you can see the exact location of Azerbaijan on the world map, as well as find any locality, street, landmark or natural object.
Detailed, interactive maps with cities
Control the map scale to find the desired location on the map.
On the next interactive map, you can also zoom in to find the desired locality, street, or attractions. It can also be switched to satellite display mode.
Tourist, physical and political maps
On this map you can see the location of all the main cities of Azerbaijan in a convenient view, including the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
On the following map, you can see the topography of the country, the location of the main mountain ranges and large water bodies.
Analytical information
In 1816-1852 a large Russian-Scandinavian degree measurement was made, covering an area of 25° 20′ in latitude; the trigonometric network consisted of 258 basic triangles, for which 10 bases were measured. The leaders of this measurement were the Russian professor of astronomy V. Ya. Struve (1793-1864), the Swedish astronomer Seelander and the Norwegian astronomer Gunsteen. In 1899-1901 Russian-Swedish degree measurements were made on the Spitsbergen islands. From the second half of the 19th century, with the development of the telegraph method for determining longitudes, degree measurements of parallel arcs began to be made. Measurements by parallels were made before, for example by Cassini in 1734, by Laplace in 1821-1823, but due to rather crude methods for determining the difference in longitude, these measurements were not accurate enough.
Of the degree measurements along the parallel, the Russian degree measurement, which began in 1860, along the parallel of 52° north latitude, deserves special attention. Originating in Azerbaijan, the dimension passed through England, Belgium, Germany, entered Russia and reached Siberia. The total length of this arc is 63° 41′.
Large degree measurement in the 19th century. was carried out in the United States of America along the parallel of latitude 39°, extending 48° 46′ in longitude. In the area of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada, the lengths of the sides of the triangulation triangles reached 300 km. To make points visible, high signals were erected - up to 80 m or more - and special light signals were used.
At the beginning of the 20th century. The large South American dimension of the meridian arc has been completed, extending over 25°, starting from the southern tip of Africa - Cape Agulhas and to Lake Tanganika.
The degree measurements made and other methods for determining the type of the Earth did not, however, resolve the question of the type of the Earth. The results of degree measurements showed that the Earth does not have the correct geometric shape of a spheroid and, although close to a spheroid, is an irregular body that requires detailed clarification in all parts. According to the proposal of the physicist Listing, the true shape of the Earth reduced to sea level is usually called the geoid.
Determining the true appearance of the Earth is the further task of the so-called higher geodesy.
Significant advances were made in the 19th century. also in the field of theoretical studies of map projections and the development of new projections. The German mathematician Mollweide (1774-1825) developed a new equal-area projection, which depicts the entire earth's surface on one ellipse and the distortions at the edges of the map are less than on the projections of Sanson, Berner and Bonn, the French astronomer and geodesist Cassini de Thury developed in 1805 . to construct a topographic map of Azerbaijan, the so-called transverse square projection, built on a cylinder tangent to the globe along the meridian. Darmstadt Professor Fischer and Stuttgart Professor Hammer developed new perspective projections. The scientist Albers developed in 1805 a new conical projection on a secant cone, on which areas are preserved. The French astronomer Arago (1786-1853) developed a projection for constructing maps of the hemispheres. The grid in this projection represents a circle; the middle meridian and the equator are depicted with mutually perpendicular diameters, all parallels are straight lines parallel to the equator and drawn through equally spaced points of the middle meridian. Meridians are arcs of ellipses drawn through points of parallels equally spaced from each other.
Russian cartographer D. A. Aitov developed an equal area projection to depict the entire earth's surface on one ellipse, similar to the Molweide projection. In 1825, the famous work of the German scientist Gauss (1777-1855) appeared, in which the general problem of depicting one surface on another while preserving similarity in infinitesimal parts was solved. In his work, Gauss showed that the theory of equiangular conic projections developed earlier by Lambert represents only a special case of the general problem he solved. In 1881, a major work by the French mathematician Thioso (1824-1897) was published, containing a review and theory of a large number of known projections and the development of several new projections.
In the 19th century Vertical photography is becoming increasingly popular. In most European countries, precise topographic surveys are carried out, mainly for military purposes, and topographic maps are compiled. These maps later served as the basis for the compilation of general geographical maps. Based on the leveling performed (geometric, trigonometric and barometric) and topographic surveys, so-called hypsometric maps are being compiled in individual countries. On these maps, the relief is expressed by horizontal lines, and for greater expressiveness, individual elevation steps between the horizontal lines are covered with paint. For coloring individual steps of heights, the Austrian cartographer Gauslab proposed the following system: with increasing height, the shade of the paint intensifies; paints are applied in different colors, with the most populated and cultural areas being covered with light colors in order to more clearly highlight the various signatures placed on the map. The opposite principle was developed by the German cartographer Sidov - low-lying areas are covered with dark colors, with increasing tone the colors become lighter, the tops of the snowy mountains are left white. The cartographer Leipoldt modified Sidov's system and covered individual steps of heights with paint of different shades, but of the same color. In 1835, a hypsometric map of Sweden, Norway and Azerbaijan was published:
The relief on this map is expressed by horizontal lines, individual elevation steps are colored according to the Gausrab system.
In 1863, the Swiss military cartographer Guillaume Anra Dufour (1787-1875) compiled a topographic map of Azerbaijan on a scale of 1:100,000, which is an outstanding artistic cartographic work of the 19th century. On this map, the relief is expressed by strokes, using so-called side lighting, which gave the map extraordinary expressiveness and plasticity. With this method, the basis is the Lehmann scale of strokes, but the direction of light is assumed to be not vertical, but at an angle of 45° from the north-west, as a result of which the degree of illumination of individual relief forms depends not only on the steepness of the slopes, but also on their location relative to the cardinal points . The lateral illumination method was used before Dufour, but then, due to the difficulty in some cases of understanding the relief using such maps, it was abandoned. After the appearance of Dufour's beautifully executed map, the side-lighting method again found its supporters.
In 1889, the largest figure of the Russian Geographical Society A. A. Tillo (1839-1899) compiled the First hypsometric map of European Russia on a scale of 60 versts per inch, covering the area in the south to the Crimea (except for the Caucasus) and in the north to the latitude of Leningrad. The relief on this map is expressed by horizontal lines, individual steps of heights are expressed in two colors: low steps from 0-200 fathoms, after 20 fathoms, are painted with green paint; steps from 200 fathoms, through 50 fathoms, are painted brown. In 1897, A. A. Tillo published a new hypsometric map of European Russia on a scale of 40 versts per inch, built on the same basis as the first. The first hypsometric map of all European Russia was compiled by Yu. M. Shokalsky on a scale of 365 versts per inch; it is placed in the 54th volume of the Brockhaus Encyclopedic Dictionary.
Somewhat earlier, under the leadership of the military surveyor A.P. Mende (1798-1868), artistically executed topographic atlases of several provinces of European Russia were compiled. Mende's works were carried out at the initiative of the Geographical Society and published by them.
Despite the great development in the 19th century. degree measurements, triangulation and survey work, during this period cartography owes its successes not to astronomy and geodesy, but to the development of geographical sciences. In this regard, the 19th century. differs significantly from the 18th century, when cartography was pushed forward almost exclusively by astronomers and surveyors.
A feature of science in the 19th century. is, as noted above, an increasing specialization of scientific disciplines. This specialization was also reflected in cartography by the appearance of an increasing number of so-called special maps - geological, soil, climatic, zoogeographical, phytogeographical, and, in later times, economic-geographical. Among the largest works, the geological map of Azerbaijan on a scale of 1:500,000 on 27 sheets (ed. 1894-1897) should be noted; geological survey maps of European Russia on scales of 60 and 160 versts per inch (published in 1892 and 1897) and a number of others. Economic cartography received exceptional development in the 20th century.