Karabakh

Karabakh is a region in . It was partly controlled by the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh from 1991 until 2023, when a military offensive returned it to Azerbaijani control.

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Karabakh

  • Type: State
  • Description: geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia
  • Also known as: “Garabağ”, “Karabak”, “Karabaque”, “Qarabag”, “Хъарабах”, “Արցախ”, “کاراباخ”, “कराबाग”, and “काराबाख”
  • Categories: region and locality
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
40.3549° or 40° 21′ 18″ north
Longitude of center
46.2909° or 46° 17′ 27″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
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Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Karabakh” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قره باغ”
  • Armenian: “Ղարաբաղ”
  • Avaric: “Гъарабагъ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qarabağ”
  • Basque: “Karabakh”
  • Belarusian: “Карабах”
  • Bengali: “কারাবাখ”
  • Bishnupriya: “কারাবাখ”
  • Bulgarian: “Карабах”
  • Catalan: “Karabakh”
  • Catalan: “Regió del Karabakh”
  • Central Kurdish: “قەرەباغ”
  • Chinese: “卡拉巴赫”
  • Czech: “Karabach”
  • Dutch: “Karabach”
  • Finnish: “Karabakh”
  • French: “Karabagh”
  • Galician: “Karabakh”
  • Georgian: “ყარაბაღი”
  • German: “Karabach”
  • Greek: “Καραμπάχ”
  • Hebrew: “חאנות קרבאך”
  • Hebrew: “קַרָבָּאך”
  • Hindi: “क़राबाग़”
  • Hindi: “काराबाख़”
  • Hungarian: “Karabah”
  • Indonesian: “Karabakh”
  • Italian: “Karabakh”
  • Japanese: “カラバフ”
  • Kazakh: “Қарабақ”
  • Korean: “카라바흐”
  • Kurdish: “Karabakh”
  • Latvian: “Karabaha”
  • Macedonian: “Карабах”
  • Malay: “Karabakh”
  • Minangkabau: “Karabakh”
  • Norwegian: “Karabakh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Karabagh”
  • Ossetian: “Карабах”
  • Persian: “قره‌باغ”
  • Polish: “Karabach”
  • Portuguese: “Carabaque”
  • Romanian: “Karabah”
  • Russian: “Карабах”
  • Serbian: “Карабах”
  • Slovak: “Karabach”
  • Slovenian: “Karabah”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قاراباغ”
  • Spanish: “Karabaj”
  • Tatar: “Карабах”
  • Turkish: “Karabağ”
  • Turkmen: “Garabag”
  • Uighur: “قاراباغ”
  • Ukrainian: “Карабах”
  • Urdu: “قرہ باغ”
  • Uzbek: “Qorabog‘”
  • Uzbek: “Qorabogʻ”
  • Venetian: “Karabakh”
  • Vietnamese: “Karabakh”
  • Welsh: “Karabakh”
  • Western Armenian: “Ղարաբաղ”

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