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Azerbaijan
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| Short Information | Capital: Baku (Baki)
Language: Azerbaijani (Azeri)
Currency: Azerbaijani manat (AZM) | |
| Cities of Azerbaijan | | Baku , | |
 PRIVATE GUIDES OF Azerbaijan | | AzIntourist - You can rely on the Azerbaijan tourist company "Azintourist" (former "Azertour" and VAO"Intourist") to ensure your comfortable stay in Azerbaijan. You will benefit from the atmosphere of professional servicing and Caucasian hospitality. | | Zaur Mammadov - Located on the very crossroads of Eastern and Western civilizations, Azerbaijan was exposed to the influence of both of them. As a part of the greatest empires in the history of human kind, Azerbaijan was the site of the most decisive events and had seen many mighty conquerors, including Haroun al-Raschid, Chingis Khan, Pompey, and Alexander the Great. |  See all private and personal guides of Azerbaijan |
| PRIVATE TOURS IN Azerbaijan | | Baku city tour - First Day Arrival to Baku, transfer from the Airport to your Hotel Accommodation in the hotel Breakfast Beginning of excursion in Old Town - "Icheri Sheher". See the highlights of Icheri Sheher including the Palace of the Shirvans (the most striking example of the Medieval palace structures in Azerbaijan, dating to the middle of 15th century). | | Individual tours - We are delighted to have the opportunity to help you plan a tailor made tour to Azerbaijan. Please give us as more information as possible on what you expect or would like to see within this trip in order to enable us to give you as exact reply as we can. | | Fire Worshippers - It is an Indian Temple built near the natural vents of flaming gas in Surakhny area at a 25- km distance from Baku. Openings in the walls permitted a view of the eternal fire on the altar inside and other flames at the four corners of the altar roof. | | Guide for Old Baku tour - Baki's compact Old Town is a mixture of Medieval monuments, 19th century oil boom Mansions, and a few Soviet-era monstrosities. It once extended farther east towards the sea, but part was demolished to make way for Neftchilar prospekti and the waterfront park. | | Tours outside Baku. - Sheki - (320 km from Baku), This is one of the most ancient towns in Azerbaijan, situated on a mountain slope over 2,200 ft above sea level. The upper, ancient part of the town is turned to a historical museums. | | See all private and personal tours in Azerbaijan |
| General details about Azerbaijan |  CAPITAL CITY OF Azerbaijan: Baku (Baki)
LANGUAGE OF Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani (Azeri)
CURRENCY OF Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani manat (AZM)
COMMENTS ABOUT Azerbaijan:
Cities : Baku (capital), Gance, Lankaran, Mingechivir, Naftalan, Nakhichevan City, Sheki, Sumqayit
Electricity : 220V/50Hz (European plug)
Calling Code : +994
Time Zone : UTC+4
Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population - regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Despite a 1994 cease-fire, Azerbaijan has yet to resolve its conflict with Armenia over the Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh enclave (largely Armenian populated). Azerbaijan has lost 16% of its territory and must support some 800,000 refugees and internally displaced persons as a result of the conflict. Corruption is ubiquitous and the promise of widespread wealth from Azerbaijan's undeveloped petroleum resources remains largely unfulfilled.
CLIMATE OF Azerbaijan: dry, semiarid steppe
RELIGION OF Azerbaijan: Muslim 93.4%, Russian Orthodox 2.5%, Armenian Orthodox 2.3%, other 1.8% (1995 est.)
POPULATION OF Azerbaijan: 7,868,385 (July 2004 est.)
ECONOMY OVERVIEW OF Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan's number one export is oil. Azerbaijan's oil production declined through 1997 but has registered an increase every year since. Negotiation of production-sharing arrangements (PSAs) with foreign firms, which have thus far committed $60 billion to long-term oilfield development, should generate the funds needed to spur future industrial development. Oil production under the first of these PSAs, with the Azerbaijan International Operating Company, began in November 1997. Azerbaijan shares all the formidable problems of the former Soviet republics in making the transition from a command to a market economy, but its considerable energy resources brighten its long-term prospects. Baku has only recently begun making progress on economic reform, and old economic ties and structures are slowly being replaced. One obstacle to economic progress is the need for stepped up foreign investment in the non-energy sector. A second obstacle is the continuing conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Trade with Russia and the other former Soviet republics is declining in importance while trade is building with Turkey and the nations of Europe. Long-term prospects will depend on world oil prices, the location of new pipelines in the region, and Azerbaijan's ability to manage its oil wealth.
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