Azerbaijan: Lairgest kintra in the Sooth Caucasus region o Eurasie

Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), offeecially the Republic o Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası) is the lairgest kintra in the Sooth Caucasus region o Eurasie.

Locatit at the crossroads o Eastren Europe an Wastren Asie, it is boondit bi the Caspian Sea tae the east, Roushie tae the north, Georgie tae the northwast, Armenie tae the wast, an Iran tae the sooth.

Republic o Azerbaijan

Azərbaycan Respublikası  (Azerbaijani)
Anthem
  • Azərbaycan marşı
  • "Mairch o Azerbaijan"
Location o Azerbaijan (green)
Location o Azerbaijan (green)
CaipitalBaku
40°25′N 49°50′E / 40.417°N 49.833°E / 40.417; 49.833
Offeecial leidsAzerbaijani
Ethnic minority leidsArmenian (anerly in Nagorno-Karabakh), Avar, Budukh, Georgie, Juhuri, Khinalug, Kryts, Lezgian, Roushie, Rutul, Tat, Tatar, Tsakhur an Udi
Demonym(s)Azerbaijani
GovrenmentUnitary dominant-pairty semi-presidential republic
• Preses
Ilham Aliyev
• Vice Preses
Mehriban Aliyeva
• Prime Meenister
Ali Asadov
LegislaturNaitional Assembly
Formation
• Democratic Republic
28 Mey 1918
28 Aprile 1920
• Independence from Soviet Union
30 August 1991 (declared)
18 October 1991 (unthirldom)
25 December 1991 (completit)
• Constitution adopted
12 November 1995
Aurie
• Total
86,600 km2 (33,400 sq mi) (112t)
• Water (%)
1.6
Population
• 2016 estimate
9,754,830 (89t)
• Density
112.6/km2 (291.6/sq mi) (103rd)
GDP (PPP)2016 estimate
• Total
$167.905 billion
• Per capita
$17,688
GDP (nominal)2016 estimate
• Tot
$35.686 billion
• Per capita
$3,759
Gini (2008)33.7
medium
HDI (2013)0.751
heich · 76th
CurrencyManat (₼) (AZN)
Time zoneAZT (UTC+04)
Drivin sidericht
Cawin code+994
ISO 3166 codeAZ
Internet TLD.az
Azerbaijan: Lairgest kintra in the Sooth Caucasus region o Eurasie
Territorial organization

The exclave o Nakhchivan is boondit bi Armenie tae the north an east, Iran tae the sooth an wast, while haein a short borderline wi Turkey tae the northwast. The enclaves o Karki, Yuxarı Əskipara, Barxudarlı an Sofulu are surroondit bi Armenie an hae been controlled bi it syne the Nagorno-Karabakh War. The majority-Armenian populatit Nagorno-Karabakh region in the southwest o Azerbaijan declared itself independent frae Azerbaijan in 1991, but it is no diplomatically recognised bi ony naition an is still considered a de jure pairt o Azerbaijan, bein occupied bi Armenian forces.

Azerbaijan Democratic Republic wis the first successfu attempt tae establish a democratic an secular republic in the Muslim warld. Nouadays Azerbaijan, a naition wi a majority Turkic an Shi‘ite Muslim population, is a secular an a unitary republic wi an auncient an historic cultural heritage. Azerbaijan haes diplomatic relations wi 158 kinrtas sae far an haulds membership in 38 internaitional organisations. Azerbaijan is ane o the foondin members o GUAM an the Organisation for the Prohibition o Chemical Weapons, an jynt the Commonwealth o Independent States in September 1993. On 9 Mey 2006 Azerbaijan wis electit tae membership in the newly established Human Richts Council bi the Unitit Naitions General Assembly. The term o office began on 19 Juin 2006. A Special Envoy o the European Commission is present in the kintra, which is an' a' a member o the Unitit Naitions, the OSCE, the Council o Europe, an the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) program. The kintra an aa haulds observer status in the Non-Aligned Movement an Warld Tred Organisation an is a correspondent at the Internaitional Telecommunication Union.

Etymology o the name

Azerbaijan: Lairgest kintra in the Sooth Caucasus region o Eurasie 
Azerbaijan is ane o the sax independent Turkic States as o 1991.

The name o Azerbaijan derives frae Atropates, a Persian satrap unner the Achaemenid Empire, that wis later reinstatit as the satrap o Media unner Alexander the Great. The oreeginal etymology o this name is thocht tae hae its roots in the auncient Iranian releegion o Zoroastrianism. In the Avesta, Frawardin Yasht ("Hymn tae the Guardian Angels"), thare is a mention o âterepâtahe ashaonô fravashîm ýazamaide, which literally translates frae Avestan as "we worship the Fravashi o the holy Atare-pata".

Atropates ruled ower the region o Atropatene (present-day Iranian Azerbaijan). The name "Atropates" itself is the Greek transliteration o an Auld-Iranian, probably Median, compoondit name wi the meanin "Protectit bi the (Holy) Fire". The Greek name is mentioned bi Diodorus Siculus an Strabo, an it is continued as ādurbādagān in the Middle Persian geographical text Shahrestānihā i Erānshahr. The wird is translatable as baith "the treasury" an "the treasurer" o fire in Modren Persian.

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