Baku
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan and is the largest city in the Caucasus. Baku's Old Town has UNESCO World Heritage status. Many cultures and architectural styles mix in Baku, in particular Turkish-Islamic elements meet strong Western European and Russian-Eastern European influences.Photo: Sefer azeri, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan
Photo: Parishan, Public domain.
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, located in Baku, is the main state research organization and the primary body that conducts research and coordinates activities in the fields of science and social sciences in Azerbaijan.
Maiden Tower
Photo: Ludvig14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Maiden Tower is a 12th-century monument in the Old City, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Shirvanshahs' Palace complex
Photo: brunogirin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Palace of the Shirvanshahs is a 15th-century palace built by the Shirvanshahs and described by UNESCO as "one of the pearls of Azerbaijan's architecture".
Baku
- Type: City with 2,300,000 residents
- Description: capital of Azerbaijan
- Categories: capital city, million city, şəhər and locality
- Location: Baku Region, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.3756° or 40° 22' 32" northLongitude
49.8328° or 49° 49' 58" eastPopulation
2,300,000Elevation
-23 metres (-75 feet)IATA airport code
BAKUnited Nations Location Code
AZ BAKOpen Location Code
8HGF9RGM+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 2117350415OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
587084Wikidata ID
Q9248Baku Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Baku
- Abkhazian: Бақәа
- Achinese: Baku
- Adyghe: Баку
- Afar: Baku
- Afrikaans: Bakoe
- Akan: Baku
- Albanian: Baku
- Amharic: ባኩ
- Arabic: Baku
- Arabic: باكو
- Aragonese: Bacú
- Armenian: Բաքու
- Armenian: Պաքու
- Arpitan: Bakou
- Asturian: Bakú
- Avaric: Баку
- Awadhi: बाकु
- Azerbaijani: Atşi Baqvan
- Azerbaijani: Atəşi Baquan
- Azerbaijani: Badi Kubə
- Azerbaijani: Baki
- Azerbaijani: Bakuyə
- Azerbaijani: Bakı
- Azerbaijani: Baqu
- Azerbaijani: Böyük Bakı
- Azerbaijani: Küləklər şəhəri
- Balinese: Baku
- Bashkir: Баҡы
- Basque: Baku
- Belarusian: Баку
- Bengali: বাকু
- Bosnian: Baku
- Breton: Bakou
- Bulgarian: Баку
- Burmese: ဗားကူးမြို့
- Burmese: ဘာကူးမြို့
- Catalan: Bakú
- Cebuano: Baku City
- Central Bikol: Baku
- Central Kurdish: باکوو
- Chechen: Бакох
- Chinese: Baku
- Chinese: 巴库 / 巴庫
- Chinese: 巴库
- Chinese: 巴庫
- Chinese: 阿塞拜疆首都
- Chuvash: Баку
- Cornish: Baku
- Crimean Tatar: Baqu
- Croatian: Baku
- Czech: Baku
- Danish: Baku
- Dhivehi: ބާކޫ
- Dimli (individual language): Bakı
- Dutch: Bakoe
- Eastern Mari: Баку
- Egyptian Arabic: باكو
- English: Baki
- English: Baky
- English: City of Winds
- Erzya: Баку ош
- Esperanto: Bakuo
- Estonian: Bakuu
- Faroese: Baku
- Fiji Hindi: Baku
- Finnish: Baku
- French: Bakou
- Fulah: Baku
- Gagauz: Baku
- Galician: Bakú
- Galician: باکۊ
- Georgian: ბაქო
- German: Baku
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Baku
- Gilaki: باکۊ
- Greek: Μπακού
- Gujarati: બાકૂ
- Haitian: Bakou
- Hakka Chinese: Baku
- Hausa: Baku
- Hebrew: באקו
- Hebrew: בקו
- Hindi: बाकू
- Hungarian: Baku
- Hungarian: Bakı
- Icelandic: Bakú
- Ido: Baku
- Iloko: Baku
- Inari Sami: Baku
- Indonesian: Baku
- Ingush: Баку
- Interlingua: Baku
- Interlingue: Baku
- Irish: Bakı
- Italian: Baku
- Japanese: バクー
- Javanese: Baku
- Kabardian: Баку
- Kabyle: Baku
- Kannada: ಬಾಕು
- Kara-Kalpak: Baku
- Kazakh: Баку
- Kazakh: Бақы, Әзербайжан
- Kinyarwanda: Baku
- Kirghiz: Баку
- Komi: Баку
- Kongo: Baku
- Korean: 바꾸
- Korean: 바쿠
- Kurdish: Bakû
- Ladino: Baku
- Lao: Baku
- Latin: Bacua
- Latin: Baku
- Latvian: Baku
- Lezghian: Баку
- Ligurian: Baku
- Limburgan: Bakoe
- Lingala: Baku
- Lingua Franca Nova: Bacu
- Lithuanian: Baku
- Livvi: Baku
- Lombard: Baku
- Lower Sorbian: Baku
- Luxembourgish: Baku
- Macedo-Romanian: Baku
- Macedonian: Баку
- Madurese: Baku
- Maithili: बाकु
- Malagasy: Baku
- Malay: Baku
- Malayalam: ബക്കു
- Malayalam: ബാകു
- Maltese: Baku
- Manipuri: ꯕꯥꯀꯨ
- Maori: Baku
- Marathi: बाकू
- Mazanderani: باکو
- Min Dong Chinese: Baku
- Min Nan Chinese: Baku
- Minangkabau: Baku
- Mingrelian: ბაქო
- Moksha: Баку
- Mongolian: Баку
- Mongolian: ꯕꯥꯀꯨ
- Moroccan Arabic: باكو
- Nauru: Baku
- Navajo: Kinłánítah Naayolí
- Nepali: बाकु
- Newari: बाकु
- Northern Frisian: Baku
- Northern Luri: باکو
- Northern Sami: Baku
- Norwegian: Baku
- Norwegian Bokmål: Baku
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Baku
- Novial: Baku
- Nyanja: Baku
- Occitan (post 1500): Baki
- Occitan (post 1500): Bakó
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Baku
- Oriya: ବାକୁ
- Ossetian: Баку
- Panjabi: ਬਾਕੂ
- Papiamento: Baku
- Persian: باکو
- Piemontese: Baku
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Baku
- Polish: Baku
- Portuguese: Bacu
- Portuguese: Baku
- Pushto: باکو
- Quechua: Baku
- Romanian: Baku
- Romansh: Azərbaycan marşı
- Romansh: Baku
- Russia Buriat: Баку
- Russian: Баку
- Russian: Город Ветров
- Rusyn: Баку
- Samogitian: Baku
- Santali: ᱵᱟᱠᱩ
- Sardinian: Baku
- Scots: Baku
- Scottish Gaelic: Baku
- Serbian: Баку
- Serbo-Croatian: Baku
- Shona: Baku
- Sicilian: Baku
- Silesian: Baku
- Sindhi: باڪو
- Sindhi: باڪي
- Sinhala: බාකු
- Skolt Sami: Baku
- Slovak: Baku
- Slovenian: Baku
- Somali: Baku
- South Azerbaijani: باکی
- Southern Sotho: Baku
- Spanish: Baku
- Spanish: Bakú
- Sranan Tongo: Baku
- Sundanese: Baku
- Swahili: Baku
- Swedish: Baku
- Tagalog: Baku
- Tahitian: Baku
- Tajik: Боку
- Talysh: Boku
- Tamil: பக்கூ
- Tamil: பாகு
- Tamil: பாக்கு
- Tatar: Бакы
- Telugu: బాకు
- Telugu: బాకూ
- Tetum: Baku
- Thai: บากู
- Tibetan: པཱ་ཁི།
- Tibetan: བཱ་ཀུ།
- Turkish: Bakü
- Turkish: Rüzgarlar şehri
- Turkmen: Baku
- Tuvinian: Бакы
- Twi: Baku
- Udmurt: Баку
- Uighur: Baku
- Ukrainian: Баку
- Upper Sorbian: Baku
- Urdu: باکو
- Uzbek: Boku
- Venetian: Bakù
- Veps: Baku
- Vietnamese: Bakou
- Vietnamese: Baku
- Vietnamese: Mồm
- Vietnamese: Thành phố của những ngọn gió
- Vlaams: Baku
- Volapük: Bakı
- Võro: Bakuu
- Waray (Philippines): Baku
- Welsh: Baku
- Western Armenian: Պաքու
- Western Frisian: Bakû
- Western Mari: Баку
- Western Panjabi: باکو
- Wolof: Baku
- Wu Chinese: 巴库
- Yakut: Баку
- Yiddish: באקו
- Yoruba: Baku
- Yue Chinese: 巴庫
- Zeeuws: Bakoe
- Zulu: Baku
Other Places Named Baku
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Baku. Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.