Caucasus
Azerbaijan
Ganja Region

Ganja

Ganja is a city in the of northwestern . As a historic city, Ganja was the seat of the Atabegs, and later, its khanate under Persian suzerainty.
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  • Type: City with 336,000 residents
  • Description: city in Azerbaijan
  • Also known as: “Elisabethpol”, “Elizavetpol’”, “Ganca”, “Gandza”, “Gandzhe”, “Ganja, Azerbaijan”, “Gendzakh”, “Gǝncǝ”, “Kirovabad”, and “Yelizavetpol’”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Juma Mosque, Ganja and Alexander Nevski Church.

Mosque
Photo: Interfase, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Juma Mosque of Ganja or Friday Mosque of Ganja is a Shia Islam , located in the centre of Ganja, . The mosque was built in 1606, according to a project of Sheykh Baheddin Mohammad Amili.

Church
Photo: Conquerer01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Alexander Nevsky Church is a Russian Orthodox church in Ganja, built in 1887. Services at the church are carried out on Saturdays and Sundays, and also during the Twelve Great Feasts and Holidays. Andrey Bezotosny is currently the priest of the church.

Ganja

Latitude
40.6798° or 40° 40′ 47″ north
Longitude
46.3597° or 46° 21′ 35″ east
Population
336,000
Elevation
409 metres (1,342 feet)
IATA airport code
KVD
United Nations Location Codes
AZ GAN, AZ KBD, and AZ KVD
Open location code
8HG8M9H5+WV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 183345861
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
586523
Wiki­data ID
Q131290
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Ganja” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Ganja”
  • Albanian: “Ganxha”
  • Arabic: “جانجا”
  • Arabic: “غنجة”
  • Arabic: “كنجه”
  • Arabic: “گنجه”
  • Armenian: “Գանձակ”
  • Armenian: “Գյանջա”
  • Armenian: “Ելիզավետպոլ”
  • Armenian: “Կիրովաբադ”
  • Aymara: “Gəncə”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gəncə”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kirovabad”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yelizavetpol”
  • Bashkir: “Гәнжә”
  • Basque: “Gəncə”
  • Belarusian: “Гянджа”
  • Bengali: “গাঞ্জা”
  • Betawi: “Ganja, Asèrbaijan”
  • Bulgarian: “Ганджа”
  • Catalan: “Elisabethpol”
  • Catalan: “Elisabetpol”
  • Catalan: “Elizavetpol”
  • Catalan: “Ganca”
  • Catalan: “Gandja”
  • Catalan: “Gandzha”
  • Catalan: “Ganja”
  • Catalan: “Gəncə”
  • Catalan: “Kirovabad”
  • Catalan: “Takht-i-Sulayman”
  • Cebuano: “Ganja”
  • Central Kurdish: “گەنجە”
  • Chechen: “Гаьнджаь”
  • Chechen: “Гянджа”
  • Chinese: “占賈”
  • Chinese: “占贾/占贾”
  • Chinese: “占贾”
  • Chinese: “基洛夫堡”
  • Chinese: “甘芝”
  • Chinese: “甘贾”
  • Chinese: “甘贾市”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Gânce”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Gence”
  • Croatian: “Gäncä”
  • Croatian: “Gandža”
  • Croatian: “Gəncə”
  • Czech: “Gäncä”
  • Czech: “Gandža”
  • Czech: “Gəncə”
  • Czech: “Gjandža”
  • Czech: “Jelizavetpol”
  • Czech: “Jelizavetpoľ”
  • Czech: “Kirovabad”
  • Danish: “Elisavetpol”
  • Danish: “Gandja”
  • Danish: “Kirovabad”
  • Dutch: “Ganca”
  • Dutch: “Gäncä”
  • Dutch: “Gandja”
  • Dutch: “Gandzja”
  • Dutch: “Gence”
  • Dutch: “Gəncə”
  • Dutch: “Jelisavetpol”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гянджа”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جنجا”
  • Esperanto: “Ganĝa”
  • Esperanto: “Ganĝo”
  • Estonian: “Gäncä”
  • Estonian: “Gəncə”
  • Estonian: “Jelizavetpol”
  • Estonian: “Kirovabad”
  • Finnish: “Gäncä”
  • Finnish: “Gandža”
  • Finnish: “Gandzha”
  • Finnish: “Gäntsa”
  • Finnish: “Gəncə”
  • Finnish: “Gjandža”
  • Finnish: “Gjandzha”
  • Finnish: “Jelizavetpol”
  • Finnish: “Kirovabad”
  • French: “Elizavetpol”
  • French: “Gandja”
  • French: “Gəncə”
  • French: “Kandsag”
  • French: “Kirovabad”
  • Gagauz: “Gäncä”
  • Galician: “Gəncə”
  • Georgian: “განძა”
  • Georgian: “განჯა”
  • Georgian: “ელიზავეტპოლი”
  • Georgian: “კიროვაბადი”
  • German: “AZ-GA”
  • German: “Elisawetpol”
  • German: “Gäncä”
  • German: “Gandscha”
  • German: “Ganja”
  • German: “Ganscha”
  • German: “Gəncə”
  • German: “Gjandscha”
  • German: “Jelisawetpol”
  • German: “Kirowabad”
  • Greek: “Γκαντζά”
  • Gujarati: “ગંજા”
  • Hebrew: “גאנג’ה”
  • Hebrew: “גיינדג’ה”
  • Hebrew: “גנג’ה”
  • Hebrew: “גנגה”
  • Hindi: “गांजा”
  • Hindi: “गैंजा”
  • Hungarian: “Gəncə”
  • Ido: “Gäncä”
  • Ido: “Kirovabad”
  • Indonesian: “Ganja, Azerbaijan”
  • Indonesian: “Ganja”
  • Indonesian: “Gəncə”
  • Irish: “Ganja”
  • Italian: “Elizavetpol‘”
  • Italian: “Elizavetpol”
  • Italian: “Gäncä”
  • Italian: “Gangia”
  • Italian: “Gangià”
  • Italian: “Ganja”
  • Italian: “Ganjeh”
  • Italian: “Gəncə”
  • Italian: “Gjandza”
  • Italian: “Gjandža”
  • Italian: “Gjandzha”
  • Italian: “Gyandzha”
  • Italian: “Kirovabad”
  • Japanese: “エリザヴェートポリ”
  • Japanese: “ギャンジャ”
  • Japanese: “キロヴァバード”
  • Japanese: “キロババード”
  • Japanese: “ゲンジェ”
  • Kannada: “ಗಂಜ”
  • Kazakh: “Gänjä”
  • Kazakh: “Гәнжә”
  • Kazakh: “گانجا”
  • Korean: “간자”
  • Korean: “갠재”
  • Korean: “갼자”
  • Kurdish: “Gence”
  • Latin: “Gangia”
  • Latvian: “Gendže”
  • Lezghian: “Генже”
  • Lezghian: “ГъанцӀах”
  • Lithuanian: “Gandža”
  • Lithuanian: “Gence”
  • Lithuanian: “Gendžė”
  • Lithuanian: “Giandža”
  • Lithuanian: “Jelizavetpolis”
  • Lithuanian: “Kirovabadas”
  • Malay: “Ganja, Azerbaijan”
  • Malay: “Ganja”
  • Marathi: “गणजा”
  • Mazanderani: “گنجه”
  • Mingrelian: “განჯა”
  • Mongolian: “Гянжа”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ganja”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gandsja”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ganja”
  • Norwegian: “Ganja”
  • Ossetian: “Гандза”
  • Ossetian: “Гянджа”
  • Persian: “گنجه”
  • Polish: “Abbasabad”
  • Polish: “Gandża”
  • Polish: “Giandża”
  • Polish: “Jelizawetpol”
  • Polish: “Kirowabad”
  • Portuguese: “Ganja”
  • Quechua: “Ganja”
  • Quechua: “Gəncə”
  • Romanian: “Ganca”
  • Romanian: “Gandja”
  • Romanian: “Ganja”
  • Russian: “Ганджа”
  • Russian: “Гянджа”
  • Russian: “Елизаветполь”
  • Russian: “Елисаветполь”
  • Russian: “Кировабад”
  • Russian: “Кировобад”
  • Rusyn: “Ганджа”
  • Scots: “Ganja, Azerbaijan”
  • Scots: “Ganja”
  • Scots: “Gəncə”
  • Serbian: “Ганџа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gandža”
  • Silesian: “Gandża”
  • Sinhala: “ගංජා, අසර්බයිජානය”
  • Sinhala: “ගංජා”
  • Sinhala: “ගන්ජා”
  • Slovak: “Gäncä”
  • Slovak: “Gəncə”
  • Slovak: “Giandža”
  • Slovak: “Gyandzha”
  • Slovak: “Kirovabad”
  • Slovenian: “Elizavetpol‘”
  • Slovenian: “Elizavetpol”
  • Slovenian: “Gandža”
  • Slovenian: “Ganja”
  • Slovenian: “Gəncə”
  • Slovenian: “Gjandža”
  • Slovenian: “Jelizavetpol”
  • Slovenian: “Kirovabad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “گنجه”
  • Spanish: “Elizavetpol”
  • Spanish: “Gandja”
  • Spanish: “Ganja”
  • Spanish: “Ganya”
  • Spanish: “Ganyá”
  • Spanish: “Kirovabad”
  • Sundanese: “Ganja, Azerbaijan”
  • Sundanese: “Ganja”
  • Sundanese: “Gəncə”
  • Swedish: “Gäncä”
  • Swedish: “Gändzjä”
  • Swedish: “Ganja”
  • Swedish: “Gəncə”
  • Swedish: “Jelizavetpol”
  • Swedish: “Kirovabad”
  • Tagalog: “Ganja”
  • Tajik: “Gonço”
  • Tajik: “Ганҷа”
  • Talysh: “Gəncə”
  • Talysh: “Gənčə”
  • Tamil: “கஞ்சா நகரம், அசர்பைஜான்”
  • Tamil: “கஞ்சா”
  • Tatar: “Гәнҗә”
  • Telugu: “గంజా”
  • Thai: “แกนแจ”
  • Thai: “เขตแกนแจ”
  • Turkish: “Ganca”
  • Turkish: “Gence”
  • Turkish: “Kirovabad”
  • Turkmen: “Ganja”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґанджа”
  • Ukrainian: “Гянджа”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґянджа”
  • Ukrainian: “Єлизаветполь”
  • Ukrainian: “Єлисаветполь”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіровабад”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Gandźa”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Gəncə”
  • Urdu: “گنجہ”
  • Uzbek: “Ganja”
  • Venetian: “Gäncä”
  • Veps: “Gändž”
  • Vietnamese: “Ganca”
  • Vietnamese: “Ganja, Azerbaijan”
  • Vietnamese: “Ganja”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ganja”
  • Welsh: “Ganja”
  • Western Armenian: “Գանձակ”
  • Western Panjabi: “گانجا شہر”
  • Western Panjabi: “گنجہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “占贾”
  • Yue Chinese: “占賈”

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