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The entry is geolocated on the map in AZ.
Within Vinony's link graph, Neft Daşları is referenced by 120 other articles, and connects out to Azerbaijan, Baku and Pirallahy raion.
Vinony files it under Artificial islands, Azerbaijani inventions and Coastal construction.
Its subject is documented across 29 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Pirallahı rayonu
- Region
- Baki
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 916
- Timezone
- Asia/Baku
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- City
- Baku
- District
- Pirallahi
- Municipality
- Çilov-Neft Daşları
- Total
- 2,000
- Time zone
- UTC+4 ( AZT )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- oil platform
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Located in
- Pirallahy raion
- Population
- 2000
- Elevation
- 0
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Body of water
- Caspian Sea
- Image
- Oil Rocks estacades.jpg
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- Commons category
- Neft Daşları
- inception
- 1949-00-00
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Neft Daşları ( pronounced [ˈneft dɑʃlɑˈɾɯ] lit. 'Oil Rocks') is an industrial settlement in Baku, Azerbaijan. The settlement forms part of the municipality of Çilov-Neft Daşları in the Pirallahy raion. It lies 86 km (53 mi) away from the Azerbaijani capital Baku and 39 km (24 mi) from the nearest mainland shore in the Caspian Sea. A full town on the sea, it was the first oil platform in Azerbaijan, and the first operating offshore oil platform in the world, incorporating numerous drilling platforms. It is featured in Guinness World Records as the world's first offshore oil platform.
The settlement began with a single path out over the water and grew into a system of paths and platforms built upon ships sunk to serve as the Neft Daşları's foundation. The most distinctive feature of Neft Daşları is that it is actually a functional city with a population of around 2,000 and once comprised over 200 km (120 mi) of streets built on piles of landfill.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Neft Daşları” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.