Shamakhi
Shamakhi is a city in Azerbaijan and the administrative centre of the Shamakhi District. The city's estimated population as of 2010 was 31,704. It is famous for its traditional dancers, the Shamakhi Dancers, and also for perhaps giving its name to the Soumak rugs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 41,000 residents
- Description: city in Azerbaijan
- Also known as: “Şamaxı”, “Schemacha”, “Shamakha”, and “Shamakhy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Juma Masjid of Shamakhi and Shamakhi City Stadium.
Juma Masjid of Shamakhi
Mosque
Photo: Shahin Shahbaz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Juma Mosque of Shamakhi, also known as the Juma Mosque of Shamakhi, is a mosque in the city of Shamakhi, Azerbaijan.
Shamakhi
- Categories: city or town and locality
- Location: Shamakhi District, Baku Region, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.6339° or 40° 38′ 2″ northLongitude
48.6382° or 48° 38′ 18″ eastPopulation
41,000Elevation
687 metres (2,254 feet)United Nations Location Code
AZ SAMOpen location code
8HGCJJMQ+G7OpenStreetMap ID
node 226791840OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Shamakhi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شماخى”
- Arabic: “شماخي”
- Armenian: “Շամախի”
- Avaric: “Шамаха”
- Azerbaijani: “Şamaxı”
- Azerbaijani: “Yezidiyyə”
- Bashkir: “Шәмәхә”
- Basque: “Shamakhi”
- Belarusian: “Шамахы”
- Belarusian: “Шэмаха”
- Betawi: “Shamakhi”
- Catalan: “Şamaxı”
- Catalan: “Shamakha”
- Catalan: “Shamakhi”
- Catalan: “Shammakha”
- Catalan: “Shammakhi”
- Catalan: “Shemakha”
- Cebuano: “Shamakhi”
- Chechen: “Шамахи”
- Chinese: “沙馬基”
- Czech: “Šamachi”
- Danish: “Şamaxı”
- Dutch: “Samaxi”
- Dutch: “Şamaxı”
- Dutch: “Shemakha”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شماخى”
- Esperanto: “Ŝamaĥi”
- Finnish: “Şamaxı”
- Finnish: “Šemaha”
- French: “Chamakhi”
- French: “Şamaxı”
- French: “Shamakha”
- French: “Shamakhi”
- Georgian: “შემახა”
- German: “Şamaxı”
- Greek: “Σαμάξι”
- Hebrew: “שמאחי”
- Hindi: “शामाखी”
- Hungarian: “Şamaxı”
- Italian: “Şamaxı”
- Japanese: “シャマキ”
- Japanese: “シャマヒ”
- Japanese: “シャマフ”
- Kazakh: “Шамақы”
- Kazakh: “Шамахы”
- Korean: “샤마흐”
- Latin: “Sammachia”
- Latvian: “Šamahi”
- Lezghian: “Шемаха”
- Lithuanian: “Šamachi”
- Lithuanian: “Samaxi”
- Lithuanian: “Šemacha”
- Macedonian: “Шемахи”
- Malay: “Şamaxı”
- Malayalam: “ഷമാഖി”
- Maltese: “Shamakhi”
- Moksha: “Шамахи”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Şamaxı”
- Norwegian: “Şamaxı”
- Ossetian: “Шемахы”
- Persian: “شاماخی”
- Persian: “شماخی”
- Polish: “Şamaxı”
- Polish: “Szemacha”
- Portuguese: “Shamakhi”
- Romanian: “Șamahî”
- Romanian: “Shamakha”
- Russian: “Шамаха”
- Russian: “Шамахы”
- Russian: “Шемаха”
- Russian: “Шемахы”
- Slovenian: “Šamahi”
- Slovenian: “Šamaki”
- South Azerbaijani: “شاماخی”
- South Azerbaijani: “شماخی”
- Spanish: “Samaxı”
- Spanish: “Şamaxı”
- Spanish: “Shamaji”
- Swedish: “Şamaxı”
- Swedish: “Shamakhi”
- Tagalog: “Şamaxı”
- Tagalog: “Shemakha”
- Tajik: “Шамохӣ”
- Tatar: “Шәмахы”
- Turkish: “Şamahı”
- Ukrainian: “Шамахи”
- Ukrainian: “Шемаха”
- Upper Sorbian: “Şamaxı”
- Urdu: “شماخی”
- Uzbek: “Shemaxa”
- Western Armenian: “Շամախի Քաղաք”
- Western Panjabi: “شماخی”
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