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The Baku Stock Exchange is Azerbaijan's largest stock exchange, and largest in the Caucasian region by market capitalization. A relatively large number of transnational companies are headquartered in Baku. One of the more prominent institutions headquartered in Baku is the International Bank of Azerbaijan, which employs over 1,000 people.
Azerbaijan, [a] officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, [b] is a transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. [10] It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia's republic of Dagestan to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south.
Capital and largest city of Azerbaijan 10: Balakan District: Balakən Balakan: 920 107,870 11: ... region [6] Area (km 2) [7] Population estimate (2021) [7 ...
Baku is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located 28 meters below sea level, which also makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world. In fact, Baku is also the largest city in the world located below sea level. 2 Sumqayıt Sumgait: 343,100
The mountainous region, whose capital Khankendi is known in Armenia as Stepanakert, was captured by Azeri forces in September 2023 in a lightning offensive, sparking the departure of at least ...
Region HDI (2023) Very high human development 1 Baku: 0.830 2 Absheron Economic Region (without Baku) 0.805 High human development 3 Sheki-Zagatala economic-geographical region: 0.786 – Azerbaijan: 0.765: 4 Ganja-Dashkesen Economic Region: 0.740 5 Guba- Khacmaz Economic Region: 0.738 6 Northern Karabakh Economic Region: 0.724 7 Qazakh- Tovuz ...
On Sunday, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev raised his nation’s flag over the region's capital, reaffirming control over it. Within days of the capitulation, ethnic Armenians streamed out ...
The Turkish Government and the Soviet Governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan are agreed that the region of Nakhchivan, within the limits specified by Annex III to the present Treaty, constitutes an autonomous territory under the protection of Azerbaijan. [67] Thus, on February 9, 1924, the Soviet Union officially established the Nakhchivan ASSR.