Caucasus
Azerbaijan
Sheki Region

Sheki

Shaki is 's true travel gem, a small city off on the forested slopes of the . Rich in Islamic architecture, Silk Road history, good food, and friendly people, this is travel and leisure in the at its finest.
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  • Type: City with 65,800 residents
  • Description: city in Azerbaijan
  • Also known as: “Nukha”, “Nuxa”, “Şǝki”, “Şəki”, “Shaki”, “Shäki”, and “Shaki, Azerbaijan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shaki Khan Palace and Upper Caravanserai.

Photo: Ludvig14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Palace of Shaki Khans in Shaki, northwestern , is a historic monument that once served as the summer residence of the Shaki khans. It was constructed in 1797 under the rule of Muhammad Husayn Khan Mushtaq.

Photo: Gilad.rom, CC BY 2.5.
The is a historical monument in Sheki, . A part of the building is now used as a hotel.

Museum
Photo: Interfase, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mirza Fatali Akhundov, also known as Mirza Fatali Akhundzade, or Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh, was a celebrated Iranian Azerbaijani author, playwright, atheist, philosopher, and literary critic who lived most of his life in the Russian Empire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kish.

Photo: Grandmaster, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kiş is a village and municipality in the Shaki Rayon of . It is about 5 km north of Shaki. It has a population of 6,244.

Sheki

Latitude
41.2032° or 41° 12′ 12″ north
Longitude
47.1803° or 47° 10′ 49″ east
Population
65,800
Elevation
549 metres (1,801 feet)
Open location code
8HH9653J+74
Open­Street­Map ID
node 227109482
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
585170
Wiki­data ID
Q234783
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Sheki” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Shaki (qytet)”
  • Albanian: “Shaki”
  • Arabic: “شكي”
  • Armenian: “Նուխա”
  • Armenian: “Շաքի”
  • Armenian: “Շեքի”
  • Avaric: “Шеки”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nuxa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şəki”
  • Bashkir: “Шәки”
  • Basque: “Şəki”
  • Belarusian: “Нуха”
  • Belarusian: “Шэкі”
  • Bengali: “শাকি”
  • Bosnian: “Historijski grad Šaki”
  • Bulgarian: “Шеки”
  • Catalan: “Nukha”
  • Catalan: “Shaki”
  • Cebuano: “Sheki”
  • Chechen: “Шаьки”
  • Chinese: “舍基”
  • Croatian: “Šeki”
  • Czech: “Nucha”
  • Czech: “Šeki”
  • Czech: “Şəki”
  • Danish: “Şəki”
  • Dutch: “Şäki”
  • Dutch: “Seki (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Şəki”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝeki”
  • Estonian: “Nuxa”
  • Estonian: “Şəki”
  • Finnish: “Nuxa”
  • Finnish: “Šeki”
  • Finnish: “Şəki”
  • Finnish: “Sheki”
  • French: “Chaki”
  • French: “Cheki”
  • French: “Səki”
  • French: “Şəki”
  • French: “Shaki”
  • French: “Sheki”
  • Gagauz: “Şäki”
  • Georgian: “შაქი”
  • German: “AZ-SA”
  • German: “Nukha”
  • German: “Nuxa”
  • German: “Schäki”
  • German: “Scheki”
  • German: “Şəki”
  • German: “Sheki”
  • Greek: “Σακί”
  • Greek: “Σάκι”
  • Gujarati: “શાકી”
  • Hebrew: “שקי”
  • Hindi: “शाकी”
  • Hindi: “शेकी”
  • Hungarian: “Şəki”
  • Indonesian: “Shaki”
  • Italian: “Şəki”
  • Italian: “Shaki”
  • Japanese: “シェキ”
  • Japanese: “シャキ”
  • Kannada: “ಶಕೀ”
  • Korean: “샤키”
  • Korean: “섀키”
  • Kurdish: “Şekî”
  • Latvian: “Šeki”
  • Lithuanian: “Nucha”
  • Lithuanian: “Šeki”
  • Lithuanian: “Šekis”
  • Malagasy: “Sheki”
  • Malay: “Shaki, Azerbaijan”
  • Malayalam: “ശാകി, അസർബയ്ജാൻ”
  • Maltese: “Shaki”
  • Maltese: “Sheki”
  • Maltese: “Xaki”
  • Maltese: “Xeki”
  • Marathi: “शकी”
  • Mingrelian: “შაქი (აზერბაიჯანი)”
  • Mingrelian: “შაქი”
  • Moksha: “Шэки”
  • Mongolian: “Шеки”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Şəki”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shaki”
  • Norwegian: “Şəki”
  • Ossetian: “Шеки”
  • Persian: “شکی”
  • Persian: “شهر شکی”
  • Persian: “نوخا”
  • Persian: “نوخه”
  • Polish: “Şəki”
  • Polish: “Shaki”
  • Polish: “Szeki”
  • Portuguese: “Şəki”
  • Portuguese: “Shaki”
  • Romanian: “Şaki”
  • Romanian: “Șaki”
  • Romanian: “Shaki”
  • Russian: “Нуха”
  • Russian: “Шеки”
  • Scots: “Shaki, Azerbaijan”
  • Scots: “Shaki”
  • Serbian: “Шаки”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šaki”
  • Silesian: “Szeki”
  • Sinhala: “ශකි, අසර්බයිජානය”
  • Sinhala: “ශකි”
  • Slovak: “Şəki”
  • Slovenian: “Şäki”
  • Slovenian: “Šeki, Azerbajdžan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شکی”
  • Spanish: “Seki”
  • Spanish: “Şeki”
  • Spanish: “Şəki”
  • Spanish: “Shaki”
  • Sundanese: “Şəki”
  • Sundanese: “Shaki, Azerbaijan”
  • Sundanese: “Shaki”
  • Swedish: “Şəki”
  • Swedish: “Sjaki”
  • Tagalog: “Shaki”
  • Tajik: “Şakī”
  • Tajik: “Шакӣ”
  • Tamil: “ஷாகி, அசர்பைஜான்”
  • Tamil: “ஷாகி”
  • Tatar: “Шәке”
  • Telugu: “షాకి”
  • Thai: “แชคี”
  • Thai: “แชชี”
  • Turkish: “Nuxa”
  • Turkish: “Şeki”
  • Turkmen: “Şeki”
  • Ukrainian: “Шакі”
  • Ukrainian: “Шекі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Şəki”
  • Urdu: “شکی”
  • Uzbek: “Shaki”
  • Veps: “Šeki”
  • Vietnamese: “Şəki”
  • Vietnamese: “Shaki”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shaki”
  • Western Armenian: “Շաքի (քաղաք)”
  • Western Armenian: “Շաքի”
  • Western Panjabi: “شاکی”
  • Wu Chinese: “舍基”
  • “Şəki”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sheki”. Photo: Urek Meniashvili, CC BY-SA 3.0.