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Balakan
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Balakən (; ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Balakan District of Azerbaijan. The city is situated at the foot of the Greater Caucasus Mountains and on the Balakan river, a tributary of the Alazani River.
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Place details
- Locality
- Balakən
- Region
- Balakan District
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 14,800
- Timezone
- Asia/Baku
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Balakən
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City & Municipality
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan#Shaki-Zagatala
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Azerbaijan
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Balakan
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2017
- Settlement.population_total
- 14800
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 378
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Azərbaycan Respublikası Balakən Rayon İcra Hakimiyyəti
icra hakimiyyətinin rəsmi veb saytı
balaken-ih.gov.az →Link to the official site · 8,835 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Balakən
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Balakan District
- Official language
- Azerbaijani
- Population
- 14800
- Elevation
- 378
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Capital of
- Balakan District
- Official website
- balaken-ih.gov.az
- Image
- Balakan city.jpg
- Dialing code
- +994 2429
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- Commons category
- Balakən
- postal code
- AZ0800
- native label
- Balakən
- P12749
- 1411
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Encyclopedic overview
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Balakən (; ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Balakan District of Azerbaijan. The city is situated at the foot of the Greater Caucasus Mountains and on the Balakan river, a tributary of the Alazani River.
== Etymology == According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names, the name Balakan may be derived from an Old Georgian word "ბელის კანი (belis k'ani)", meaning "skin of a bear cub".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balakan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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