Baku

Baku (Azerbaijani: Bakı) whiles kent as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bakou, is the caipital, the maistmuckle city, an the maistmuckle port o Azerbaijan an entire Caucasus. Locatit on the soothren shore o the Absheron Peninsula, the city consists o twa principal pairts: the dountoun an the auld Inner City (21.5 ha). Datin tae antiquity, its urban population at the beginnin o 2009 wis estimatit at juist ower twa million fowk. Baku is dividit intae eleiven admeenistrative destricts (raions) an 48 tounships. Amang thir are the tounships on islands in the Baku Bay an the toun o Oil Rocks biggit on stilts in the Caspian Sea, 60 km (37 mi) away frae Baku. The Walled City o Baku alang wi the Shirvanshah's Palace an Maiden Touer wur inscribed as a UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid in 2000. Accordin tae the Lonely Planet's rankin Baku is amangst the warld's tap ten destinations for urban nichtlife anaa. The city serves as the main financial hub o Azerbaijan. Mony sizeable Azerbaijani facilities hae thair heidquarters thare, includin SOCAR, ane o the warld's tap 100 companies. Internaitional relations Twin touns an sister ceeties Baku is twinned wi:[in chronological order] Pairtnership relations Pairtnership relations exist at different levels wi: Berlin, Paris, Aiberdeen, Vienna, Stavanger, Tbilisi, Astana, Minsk, Moscow, Volgograd, Kizlyar, Tashkent an Chengdu. Metro The Baku Metro (Azerbaijani: Bakı metrosu or Bakı metropoliteni) is a rapid transit seestem in the Azerbaijani caipital city Baku. It wis opened for service in 1967. The Baku Metro haes 27 stations an its route lenth is 43.3 km (26.9 mi). Aw stations, except twa, are unnergrund. Educashun Baku State Varsity (Azerbaijani: Bakı Dövlət Universiteti, BDU) is a public research varsity locatit in Baku, Azerbaijan. It wis creatit on 1 September 1919 bi the pairlament o the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. The varsity has 16 faculties, aroond 3,000 professors an aroond 26,000 students. References