Azerbaijan
- Continent
- Europe
- Location:
- Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia, bordering
the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Russia
- Population
- 7,563,000 (November 1, 1996 estimate by the State
Statistical Board of Azerbaijan Republic. The old CIA estimate was 7,789,886 on July 1995) 7,000,000 (1991)
- Area:
- total area: 86,600 sq km
- land area: 86,100 sq km
- note: includes the exclave of Naxcivan Autonomous Republic and
the Qarabag (Nagorno-Karabakh) region; the region's autonomy was
abolished by Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet on 26 November 1991
- Independence: 30 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)
- Capital: Baku. (Baki)
- Languages
- AZE AZERBAIJANI, NORTH
- 6,791,106 in Azerbaijan and Russia (1989 census), 98% speak
it as mother tongue, 4,000,000 are monolingual
- BDK BUDUKH
- 2,000 (1977 Voegelin and Voegelin)
- JKR JUDEO-KURDISH
- 4,181 (1970), 76.2% of the ethnic group
- KJJ KHINALUGH
- 1,500
- KRY KRYTS
- 6,000 (1975 SIL)
- TLY TALYSH
- 130,000 in Azerbaijan (1982 estimate); 35,000 to 65,000 in
Iran (1982 estimate); 165,000 to 195,000 total
- TTT TAT, MUSSULMAN
- 22,000 in Azerbaijan (1979 census); 220,000 in Iran
including Jewish Tat
- UDI UDI
- 3,700 (1975 SIL)
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