Caucasus
Azerbaijan
Baku Region

Baku

Baku is the capital of and is the largest city in the . Baku's Old Town has UNESCO World Heritage status. Many cultures and architectural styles mix in Baku, in particular Turkish-Islamic elements meet strong Western European and Russian-Eastern European influences.
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  • Type: City with 2,300,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Azerbaijan
  • Also known as: “Baki”, “Baky”, and “City of Winds”
Photo: Abbaszade656, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Maiden Tower and Palace of the Shirvanshahs.

Castle
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The is a 12th-century monument in the , Baku, . Along with the , dated to the 15th century, it forms a group of historic monuments listed in 2001 under the UNESCO World Heritage List of Historical Monuments as cultural property, Category III.

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".

Railway station
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baku railway station is the central station of Baku, the capital of . It is located in the Nesimi district in central Baku, approximately 3 km northeast from the historical core of Baku, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include White City and Old City.

Locality
Photo: Ayla Gasimova, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baku is a planned urban development in the district of . It is part of the 2021 strategic plan for Baku. It refers to the re-development of a portion of Black City, a 221-hectare land area.

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

Suburb
Keshla is a settlement and municipality in Baku, .

Baku

Latitude
40.3756° or 40° 22′ 32″ north
Longitude
49.8328° or 49° 49′ 58″ east
Population
2,300,000
Elevation
-23 metres (-75 feet)
IATA airport code
BAK
United Nations Location Code
AZ BAK
Open location code
8HGF9RGM+64
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2117350415
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
587084
Wiki­data ID
Q9248
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Baku” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Бақәа”
  • Achinese: “Baku”
  • Adyghe: “Баку”
  • Afrikaans: “Bakoe”
  • Albanian: “Baku”
  • Amharic: “ባኩ”
  • Arabic: “باكو”
  • Aragonese: “Bacú”
  • Armenian: “Բաքու”
  • Arpitan: “Bakou”
  • Asturian: “Bakú”
  • Avaric: “Баку”
  • Awadhi: “बाकु”
  • Azerbaijani: “Atəşi Baquan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Atşi Baqvan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Badi Kubə”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baki”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bakı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bakuyə”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baqu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük Bakı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Küləklər şəhəri”
  • Balinese: “Baku”
  • Bashkir: “Баҡы”
  • Basque: “Baku”
  • Belarusian: “Баку”
  • Bengali: “বাকু”
  • Betawi: “Baku”
  • Bosnian: “Baku”
  • Breton: “Bakou”
  • Bulgarian: “Баку”
  • Burmese: “ဗားကူးမြို့”
  • Burmese: “ဘာကူးမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bakú”
  • Cebuano: “Baku City”
  • Central Bikol: “Baku”
  • Central Kurdish: “باکوو”
  • Central Kurdish: “باکۆ”
  • Chechen: “Бакох”
  • Chinese: “Baku”
  • Chinese: “巴库 / 巴庫”
  • Chinese: “巴库”
  • Chinese: “巴庫”
  • Church Slavic: “Бакоу”
  • Chuvash: “Баку”
  • Cornish: “Baku”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Baqu”
  • Croatian: “Baku”
  • Czech: “Baku”
  • Danish: “Baku”
  • Dhivehi: “ބާކޫ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bakı”
  • Dutch: “Bakoe”
  • Eastern Mari: “Баку”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باكو”
  • Erzya: “Баку ош”
  • Esperanto: “Bakuo”
  • Estonian: “Bakuu”
  • Faroese: “Baku”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Baku”
  • Finnish: “Baku”
  • French: “Bakou”
  • Friulian: “Baku”
  • Fulah: “Baku”
  • Gagauz: “Baku”
  • Galician: “Bakú”
  • Georgian: “ბაქო”
  • German: “Baku”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Baku”
  • Gilaki: “باکۊ”
  • Greek: “Μπακού”
  • Gujarati: “બાકૂ”
  • Haitian: “Bakou”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Baku”
  • Hausa: “Baku”
  • Hebrew: “באקו”
  • Hebrew: “בקו”
  • Hindi: “बाकू”
  • Hungarian: “Bakı”
  • Hungarian: “Baku”
  • Icelandic: “Bakú”
  • Ido: “Bakı”
  • Ido: “Baku”
  • Iloko: “Baku”
  • Inari Sami: “Baku”
  • Indonesian: “Baku”
  • Ingush: “Баку”
  • Interlingua: “Baku”
  • Interlingue: “Baku”
  • Irish: “Baki”
  • Irish: “Bakı”
  • Italian: “Baku”
  • Japanese: “バクー”
  • Javanese: “Baku”
  • Kabardian: “Баку”
  • Kabyle: “Baku”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಕು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Baku”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Баку”
  • Kazakh: “Баку”
  • Kazakh: “Бақы, Әзербайжан”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Baku”
  • Kirghiz: “Баку”
  • Komering: “Baku”
  • Komi: “Баку”
  • Kongo: “Baku”
  • Korean: “바꾸”
  • Korean: “바쿠”
  • Kurdish: “Bakû”
  • Ladino: “Baku”
  • Lao: “ບາກູ”
  • Latin: “Bacua”
  • Latin: “Baku”
  • Latvian: “Baku”
  • Lezghian: “Баку”
  • Ligurian: “Baku”
  • Limburgan: “Bakoe”
  • Lingala: “Baku”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bacu”
  • Lithuanian: “Baku”
  • Livvi: “Baku”
  • Lombard: “Baku”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Baku”
  • Luxembourgish: “Baku”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Baku”
  • Macedonian: “Баку”
  • Madurese: “Baku”
  • Maithili: “बाकु”
  • Malagasy: “Baku”
  • Malay: “Baku”
  • Malayalam: “ബക്കു”
  • Malayalam: “ബാകു”
  • Maltese: “Baku”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯥꯀꯨ”
  • Maori: “Baku”
  • Marathi: “बाकू”
  • Mazanderani: “باکو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Baku”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Baku”
  • Minangkabau: “Baku”
  • Mingrelian: “ბაქო”
  • Moksha: “Баку”
  • Mongolian: “Баку”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “باكو”
  • Nauru: “Baku”
  • Navajo: “Kinłánítah Naayolí”
  • Nepali: “बाकु”
  • Newari: “बाकु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baku”
  • Northern Luri: “باکو”
  • Northern Sami: “Baku”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baku”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baku”
  • Norwegian: “Baku”
  • Novial: “Baku”
  • Nyanja: “Baku”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Baki”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bakó”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bacu”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Baku”
  • Oriya: “ବାକୁ”
  • Ossetian: “Баку”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਕੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Baku”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Baku”
  • Persian: “باکو”
  • Piemontese: “Baku”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Baku”
  • Polish: “Baku”
  • Portuguese: “Bacu”
  • Portuguese: “Baku”
  • Pushto: “باکو”
  • Quechua: “Baku”
  • Romanian: “Baku”
  • Romansh: “Baku”
  • Russia Buriat: “Баку”
  • Russian: “Баку”
  • Russian: “Город Ветров”
  • Rusyn: “Баку”
  • Samogitian: “Baku”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱟᱠᱩ”
  • Sardinian: “Baku”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Bakoe”
  • Scots: “Baku”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Baku”
  • Serbian: “Bakı”
  • Serbian: “Баку”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baku”
  • Shona: “Baku”
  • Sicilian: “Baku”
  • Silesian: “Baku”
  • Sindhi: “باڪو”
  • Sindhi: “باڪي”
  • Sinhala: “බාකු”
  • Skolt Sami: “Baku”
  • Slovak: “Baku”
  • Slovenian: “Baku”
  • Somali: “Baku”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باکی”
  • Southern Sotho: “Baku”
  • Spanish: “Baku”
  • Spanish: “Bakú”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Baku”
  • Sundanese: “Baku”
  • Swahili: “Baku”
  • Swedish: “Baku”
  • Tagalog: “Baku”
  • Tahitian: “Baku”
  • Tajik: “Боку”
  • Talysh: “Boku”
  • Tamil: “பக்கூ”
  • Tamil: “பாகு”
  • Tamil: “பாக்கு”
  • Tatar: “Бакы”
  • Telugu: “బాకు”
  • Telugu: “బాకూ”
  • Tetum: “Baku”
  • Thai: “บากู”
  • Tibetan: “པཱ་ཁི།”
  • Tibetan: “བཱ་ཀུ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Baku”
  • Tumbuka: “Baku”
  • Turkish: “Bakü”
  • Turkish: “Rüzgarlar şehri”
  • Turkmen: “Baku”
  • Tuvinian: “Бакы”
  • Twi: “Baku”
  • Udmurt: “Баку”
  • Uighur: “Baku”
  • Ukrainian: “Баку”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Baku”
  • Urdu: “باکو”
  • Uzbek: “Boku”
  • Venetian: “Bakù”
  • Veps: “Baku”
  • Vietnamese: “Bakou”
  • Vietnamese: “Baku”
  • Vietnamese: “Mồm”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố của những ngọn gió”
  • Vlaams: “Baku”
  • Volapük: “Bakı”
  • Võro: “Bakuu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baku”
  • Welsh: “Baku”
  • Western Armenian: “Պաքու”
  • Western Frisian: “Bakû”
  • Western Mari: “Баку”
  • Western Panjabi: “باکو”
  • Wolof: “Baku”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴库”
  • Yakut: “Баку”
  • Yiddish: “באקו”
  • Yoruba: “Baku”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴庫”
  • Zeeuws: “Bakoe”
  • Zulu: “Baku”
  • Zulu: “i-Baku”
  • “Bacu”
  • “Baku”
  • “Bakuu”
  • “ma tomo Paku”

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