Baku is easy to recognize in a skyline photograph, but harder to understand from a single city pin. Azerbaijan’s capital occupies the southern side of a peninsula, faces…
A blue line on a Caucasus map can be a river, an international boundary, or both. The Aras is especially easy to misread because it passes Azerbaijan’s separate…
The Caspian Sea sits between the Caucasus and Central Asia and touches Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Azerbaijan. It behaves like a lake, is called a sea, and…
Lake Sev (Armenian: Սև լիճ, romanized: Sev lich; Azerbaijani: Qaragöl; both meaning "black lake") is a lake situated on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The majority of…
Explore Azerbaijan with 10 easy questions about its cities, coastline, language, food and traditions. This quiz is a quick way to test what you know and discover something…