Baku is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, located on the Absheron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea. Baku has over 2 million residents and is divided into 11 districts and 48 townships, including some built on islands in the Baku Bay and oil platforms in the Caspian Sea. The Inner City of Baku is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The manat is the currency of Azerbaijan, divided into 100 qəpik. Tourism is an important growing part of Azerbaijan's economy, recovering since the 2000s after being damaged during the Nagorno-Karabakh war in the 1990s.

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5.  Baku is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city
on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus 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.

7. .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.