Azerbaijan

Capital City: Baku

People: Azeri 90.6%, Dagestani 2.2%, Russian 1.8%, Armenian 1.5%, other 3.9%

Religion: Muslim 93.4%, Russian Orthodox 2.5%, Armenian Orthodox 2.3%, other 1.8%

Language: Azerbaijani (Azeri) 90.3%, Lezgi 2.2%, Russian 1.8%, Armenian 1.5%, other 3.3%, unspecified 1%

Currency: Manat

Electrical Voltage: 220 volts

How to get there:
By plane: National air company AZAL (Azerbaijan Airlines) is the main carrier which flies to Ganja, Nakhchivan, Yevlakh, Tbilisi, Aktau, Tehran, Tel-Aviv, Ankara, Istanbul, Trabzon, Antalya, Dubai, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kiev, Nizhniy Novgorod, Urumqi, Mineralniye Vodi, Milan, London, Paris. British Airways flies seven days a week to Baku. Lufthansa also has several flights a week to Baku. Turkish Airlines is another carrier connecting Baku with and via Istanbul. Also, there are several Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Iranian, and Austrian airlines connecting Baku with several cities of the world.

By train: There are trains that run daily from Georgia to Azerbaijan.

By car: There are roads to all cities of Azerbaijan. They are not really wide; most of them have only two lanes.

By bus: There are buses that run daily from Georgia, Turkey, Iran and Russia to Azerbaijan.

By boat: There is a ferry to Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.

Weather: Azerbaijan is known for having 9 of the 11 existing ecological zones, although a great deal of it is dry and semiarid steppe.

Travel Documentation and Custom Duty: Valid passport required. Entry visas required by all. Entry visas may be obtained upon arrival to Airport.

Getting Around: Buses, minibuses (marshutka), taxis, trains

Tourism Website: http://azerbaijan.tourism.az/

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