5. Baku is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city
on the Caspian Sea and of theCaucasus region. It is located on the southern
shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea.The
city consists of two principal parts: the downtown and the old Inner City
(21.5 ha). Baku's urban population at the beginning of 2009 was estimated at
just over two million people. Officially, about 25 percent of all inhabitants of
the country live in the metropolitan city area of Baku.
Baku is divided into eleven administrative districts and 48 townships.
Among these are the townships on islands in the Baku Bay and the town
of OilRocks built on stilts in the Caspian Sea, 60 km (37 mi) away from
Baku. The Inner City of Baku along with the Shirvanshah's Palace
and MaidenTower were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in
2000.
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The Manat is the currency of Azerbaijan. It is subdivided into 100 qəpik. The word manat is
borrowed from the Russian word "moneta” (coin) which is pronounced as "maneta". Manat was
also the designation of the Soviet rublle in both the Azerbaijani and Turkmen languages.
The Azerbaijani manat symbol, , is currently not encoded in Unicode, and m or man. can be
used as a substitute for the manat symbol
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10. Tourism is a growing part of the economy of Azerbaijan. The country was a well-
known tourist spot in the 1980s, yet, the Nagorno-Karabakh war during the 1990s
crippled the tourist industry and negatively impacted the image of Azerbaijan as a
tourist destination.
It was not until 2000s (decade) that the tourism industry began to recover, and the
country has since experienced a high rate of growth in the number of tourist visits
and overnight stays. In the recent years, Azerbaijan has also become a more popular
destination for religious, spa, and health care tourism.
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The Khojaly Massacre was the killing of hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani
civilians from the town of Khojaly on 25–26 February 1992 by the Armenian and,
partially, by CIS armed forces during the Nagorn-Karabakh war. According to the
Azerbaijani side, as well as Memorial Human Rights Center, Human Rights Watch and
other international observers,the massacre was committed by the
ethnic Armenian armed forces, reportedly with help of the Russian 366th Motor Rifle
Regiment, apparently not acting on orders from the command. The death toll provided
by Azerbaijani authorities is 613 civilians, including 106 women and 83 children. The
event became the largest massacre in the course of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
