Mingachevir
Mingachevir is the fourth largest city in Azerbaijan with a population of about 106,000. It is often called the "city of lights" because of its hydroelectric power station on the Kura River, which divides the city down the middle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 102,000 residents
- Description: city in Azerbaijan
- Also known as: “Mengechaur”, “Mingächevir”, “Mingechaurges”, “Mingelchaur”, and “Mingǝçevir”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mingachevir Dam.
Mingachevir Dam
Power station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Mingachevir Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Kura River just north of Mingachevir in Azerbaijan. It serves several purposes, including hydroelectric power production and water storage for irrigation.
Mingachevir
- Categories: şəhər and locality
- Location: Mingacevir City, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.7647° or 40° 45′ 53″ northLongitude
47.0524° or 47° 3′ 9″ eastPopulation
102,000Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)United Nations Location Code
AZ MGCOpen location code
8HG9Q372+VXOpenStreetMap ID
node 227052744OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Mingachevir” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Mingaçevir”
- Albanian: “Mingachevir”
- Arabic: “مينجا تشيفير”
- Arabic: “مينجاشيفير”
- Arabic: “مينغاشوير”
- Arabic: “مينغاشيفير”
- Armenian: “Մինգեչաուր”
- Armenian: “Մինգեչավիր”
- Asturian: “Mingachevir”
- Avaric: “Мингечаур”
- Azerbaijani: “Mingəçevir”
- Belarusian: “Мінгечаур”
- Belarusian: “Мінгечэвір”
- Belarusian: “Мінджывань”
- Bengali: “মিঙ্গাচেভির”
- Bulgarian: “Мингечаур”
- Bulgarian: “Мингечевир”
- Catalan: “Mingachevir”
- Cebuano: “Mingacevir City”
- Cebuano: “Mingelchaur”
- Chechen: “Мингечаур”
- Chinese: “明盖切维尔”
- Chinese: “明盖恰乌尔”
- Chinese: “明蓋恰烏爾”
- Crimean Tatar: “Mingeçevir”
- Croatian: “Mingečaur”
- Czech: “Mingacevir”
- Czech: “Mingačevir”
- Czech: “Mingəçevir”
- Danish: “Mingachevir”
- Dutch: “Mingacevir”
- Dutch: “Mingäçevir”
- Dutch: “Mingecevir”
- Dutch: “Mingəçevir”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مينجه شيفر”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مينجه شيڤر”
- Esperanto: “Mingacevir”
- Estonian: “Mingəçevir”
- Finnish: “Mingetšaur”
- Finnish: “Mingəçevir”
- French: “Mingachevir”
- French: “Mingəçevir”
- Gagauz: “Mingäçevir”
- Georgian: “მინგეჩაური”
- German: “AZ-MI”
- German: “Mingäçevir”
- German: “Mingätschewir”
- German: “Mingetschaur”
- German: “Mingəçevir”
- Greek: “Μινγκατσεβίρ”
- Gujarati: “મિંગચેવીર”
- Gujarati: “મિંગશેવીર”
- Hebrew: “מינגצ’ביר”
- Hebrew: “מינגצ’וויר”
- Hindi: “मिंगशेविर”
- Hindi: “मिंगाशेवीर”
- Hungarian: “Mingəçevir”
- Indonesian: “Mingachevir”
- Indonesian: “Mingəçevir”
- Italian: “Mingachevir”
- Italian: “Mingəçevir”
- Japanese: “ミンギャチェヴィル”
- Japanese: “ミンゲチェヴィル”
- Kannada: “ಮಿಂಗಚೆವೀರ್”
- Kazakh: “Мингәчевир”
- Kirghiz: “Мингечуар”
- Korean: “민개체비르”
- Korean: “밍가체비르”
- Korean: “밍개체비르”
- Latvian: “Mingačevira”
- Latvian: “Mingečevira”
- Lithuanian: “Mingacevir”
- Lithuanian: “Mingačeviras”
- Lithuanian: “Mingečauras”
- Lithuanian: “Mingečaūras”
- Lithuanian: “Mingečevyras”
- Lithuanian: “Mingečiaūras”
- Malagasy: “Mingelchaur”
- Malay: “Mingachevir”
- Marathi: “मिंगचेव्हीर”
- Mingrelian: “მინგეჩაური”
- Mongolian: “Мингечевир хот”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mingachevir”
- Norwegian: “Mingachevir”
- Ossetian: “Мингечаур”
- Persian: “مینگچویر”
- Persian: “مینگه چویر”
- Persian: “مینگهچئویر”
- Persian: “مینگهچویر”
- Polish: “Mingaçevir”
- Polish: “Mingeczaur”
- Polish: “Mingəçevir”
- Polish: “Mingieczaur”
- Portuguese: “Mingachevir”
- Portuguese: “Mingəçevir”
- Romanian: “Mingacevir”
- Russian: “Мингечаур”
- Russian: “Мингечевир”
- Russian: “Мингячевир”
- Scots: “Mingachevir”
- Serbian: “Мингечевир”
- Sinhala: “මිනාශේවිර්”
- Sinhala: “මින්ගචෙවිර්, අසර්බයිජානය”
- Sinhala: “මින්ගචේවිර්”
- South Azerbaijani: “مینگهچئویر”
- Spanish: “Mingacevir”
- Spanish: “Mingachevir”
- Sundanese: “Mingachevir”
- Swedish: “Mingäçevir”
- Swedish: “Mingatjevir”
- Swedish: “Mingätjevir”
- Swedish: “Mingecevir”
- Swedish: “Mingelchaur”
- Swedish: “Mingetjaur”
- Swedish: “Mingəçevir”
- Tagalog: “Mingachevir”
- Tajik: “Mingocevir”
- Tajik: “Мингачевир”
- Tajik: “Мингочевир”
- Tamil: “மிக்செவிற்”
- Tamil: “மிங்கசேவிர் நகரம்”
- Tamil: “மிங்காசெவிற்”
- Tatar: “Миңгечәвер”
- Telugu: “మింగాచెవిర్”
- Thai: “มิงกาเซวีร์”
- Thai: “มินกาเชเวอ”
- Turkish: “Mingachevir”
- Turkish: “Mingeçevir”
- Turkmen: “Mingachevir”
- Ukrainian: “Мінгечаур”
- Upper Sorbian: “Mingəçevir”
- Urdu: “منگچویر”
- Uzbek: “Mingechaur”
- Vietnamese: “Mingachevir”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mingachevir”
- Western Panjabi: “منگیچیویر شہر”
- Wu Chinese: “明盖恰乌尔”
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