Ganja Region

Ganja Region is a region in Azerbaijan that includes the Agdash, Agstafa, Barda, Dashkasan, Gadabay, Goranboy, Khanlar, Qazakh, Samukh, Shamkir, and Yevlakh rayons.

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Top destinations include Ganja and Yevlakh.

Ganja

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Ganja is a city in the Ganja Region of northwestern Azerbaijan. As a historic city, Ganja was the seat of the Atabegs, and later, its khanate under Persian suzerainty.

Yevlakh

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Yevlakh is in Ganja Region of Azerbaijan. It has peaceful parks and its people enjoy walking the embankments of the Kura River in the early evening.

Naftalan is a city in Azerbaijan, known as a medical touristic center. It is located on an agricultural plain near the Lesser Caucasus Mountains. The word naftalan also means a petroleum product that can be obtained there.

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Qazakh

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Qazax is a city in and the capital of the Gazakh District of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 20,900. Gazakh is a city and administrative district in the west of Azerbaijan, the "western gate" of Azerbaijan.

Göygöl

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Goygol is a city, municipality and the capital of the Goygol District in northwestern Azerbaijan. It is around 10 km south of Azerbaijan's third-largest city, Ganja.

Goranboy

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Goranboy is the capital city of the Goranboy District of Azerbaijan. The municipality consists of the city of Goranboy and the nearby villages of Qarasüleymanlı, Şahməmmədli, İrəvanlı, and Şurakənd. Vougar Aslanov, a journalist, is from Goranboy.

Gedabay

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Gadabay is a city and the administrative center of the Gadabay District of Azerbaijan. It is located 444 km away from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

Göygöl National Park

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Göygöl National Park is a national park of Azerbaijan. It was established in an area in Goygol Rayon administrative district on April 1, 2008, on the basis of the former "Goy Gol State Reserve" that was established in 1925 and which it superseded, on a surface area of 12,755 hectares.

Ganja Region

Latitude of center

40.825° or 40° 49′ 30″ north

Longitude of center

46.215° or 46° 12′ 54″ east

Wikidata ID

Q14216245

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Venetian—“Ganja Region” goes by many names.

Chinese: “占賈地區”
Italian: “Regione di Gäncä”
Italian: “Regione di Gəncə”
Venetian: “Rejon de Gäncä”

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