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Baku TV Tower

The Baku TV Tower, built in 1996, is a free standing concrete telecommunications tower in , . With a height of 310 metres, it is the second tallest structure in Azerbaijan after the chimneys of and the tallest reinforced concrete building in .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: a free standing concrete telecommunications tower in Baku, Azerbaijan
  • Also known as: “Baku Television Tower” and “Teleqüllə”
  • Address: 2 Abbasqulu Abbaszadə küçəsi, Bakı, 1073

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Flame Towers and Azerbaijan National Museum of Art.

Photo: Viceskeeni2, CC0.
The are a group of three skyscrapers in , . The main contractor, Dia Holdings, is owned by two brothers who are linked to Azerbaijan's ruling Aliyev family's network of offshore companies. is situated 1 km north of Baku TV Tower.

Museum
Photo: Urek Meniashvili, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the biggest art museum of . It was founded in 1936 in and in 1943 was named after Rustam Mustafayev, a prominent Azerbaijani scenic designer and theater artist. is situated 1½ km northeast of Baku TV Tower.

Museum
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The is a 15th-century palace built by the Shirvanshahs and described by UNESCO as "one of the pearls of Azerbaijan's architecture". is situated 2 km northeast of Baku TV Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old City and Baku.

Neighborhood
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or Inner City is the historical core of , the capital of . The is the most ancient part of Baku, which is surrounded by walls.

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is the capital of and is the largest city in the . 's Old Town has UNESCO World Heritage status. Many cultures and architectural styles mix in , in particular Turkish-Islamic elements meet strong Western European and Russian-Eastern European influences.

Village
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Bibiheybət is a municipality in , . It has a population of 1,451. In 1846, the Russians drilled an exploratory oil well to a depth of 21 m. is situated 5 km south of Baku TV Tower.

Baku TV Tower

Latitude
40.35156° or 40° 21′ 6″ north
Longitude
49.82337° or 49° 49′ 24″ east
Elevation
133 metres (436 feet)
Inception
July 6th, 1996
Height
310 metres (1,017 feet)
Open location code
8HGF9R2F+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1375055417
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­communications_tower
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
7282092
Wiki­data ID
Q1407274
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Baku TV Tower” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bakoe TV-toring”
  • Arabic: “برج تلفزيون باكو”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bakı Televiziya Qülləsi”
  • Bashkir: “Әзербайжан телебашняһы”
  • Bashkir: “Баҡы телебашняһы”
  • Belarusian: “Бакінская тэлевежа”
  • Catalan: “Torre de televisió de Bakú”
  • Chinese: “巴库电视塔”
  • Chinese: “巴庫電視塔”
  • Dutch: “Azeri TV toren”
  • Dutch: “Azeri TV Tower”
  • Dutch: “Azeri TV-toren”
  • Dutch: “Televisietoren van Bakoe”
  • Dutch: “Tv-toren Azeri”
  • Esperanto: “Bakua Televida Turo”
  • Estonian: “Bakuu teletorn”
  • French: “Azeri TV Tower”
  • French: “La Tour de télévision (Bakou)”
  • French: “tour de télévision de Bakou”
  • French: “Tour de télévision de Bakou”
  • German: “Fernsehturm Baku”
  • Greek: “Πύργος Τηλεόρασης του Μπακού”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל הטלוויזיה באקו”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל הטלוויזיה של באקו”
  • Hindi: “बाकू टीवी टॉवर”
  • Hungarian: “Bakui tévétorony”
  • Indonesian: “Menara azeri tv”
  • Indonesian: “Menara Azeri TV”
  • Indonesian: “Menara Baku TV”
  • Italian: “Torre della televisione di Baku”
  • Japanese: “アゼリーテレビタワー”
  • Japanese: “バクー・テレビタワー”
  • Malay: “Menara Televisyen Azerbaijan”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਕੂ ਟੀਵੀ ਟਾਵਰ”
  • Persian: “برج تلویزیون باکو”
  • Polish: “Wieża telewizyjna w Baku”
  • Portuguese: “Azeri tv tower”
  • Portuguese: “Azeri TV Tower”
  • Portuguese: “Torre de Televisão de Bacu”
  • Romanian: “Turnul de televiziune din Baku”
  • Russian: “Азербайджанская телебашня”
  • Russian: “Бакинская телебашня”
  • Slovak: “Bakı Televiziya Qülləsi”
  • Spanish: “Torre de televisión de Bakú”
  • Spanish: “Torre TV Baku”
  • Spanish: “Torre TV Bakú”
  • Swedish: “Bakus TV-torn”
  • Tagalog: “Tore ng Baku TV”
  • Thai: “หอกระจายสัญญาณโทรทัศน์บากู”
  • Turkish: “Azeri TV Kulesi”
  • Turkish: “Bakü Televizyon Kulesi”
  • Turkish: “Bakü TV Kulesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Бакинська телевежа”
  • Uzbek: “Boku teleminorasi”
  • Volapük: “Tüm televidik in Bakı”
  • Western Panjabi: “باکو ٹیوی ٹاور”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴库电视塔”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Baku TV Tower”. Photo: Araz Yaquboglu, CC BY-SA 4.0.