Map of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 40.5° N, 47.5° E. Azerbaijan is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 5 neighbours — Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Russia and Turkey — with no coastline of its own. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Azerbaijan is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Azerbaijan is surrounded by the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Azerbaijan covers about 86,600 km² (33,436 sq mi). That makes it the 111th-largest country in the world by area and the 32nd-largest in Asia, larger by area than 17 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 10,241,722, the 93rd-largest in the world and the 30th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Azerbaijan has an average population density of about 118 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 30th by population and 32nd by area.

The seat of government is Baku, and the official currency is the Azerbaijani manat (AZN, ₼), and the main official language is Azerbaijani. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+04:00.

Azerbaijan carries the ISO country codes AZ and AZE, dials on the international calling code +994 and uses the .az internet domain.

Azerbaijan shares its land borders with 5 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Russia (capital Moscow, about 146,028,325 people), Iran (capital Tehran, about 85,961,000 people), Turkey (capital Ankara, about 85,664,944 people), Georgia (capital Tbilisi, about 4,000,921 people) and Armenia (capital Yerevan, about 3,076,200 people).

By area, Azerbaijan is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 40.5° N, 47.5° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Azerbaijan within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Baku. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Azerbaijan lies about 4,496 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Azerbaijan keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+04:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +04:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Azerbaijani manat (AZN, ₼).

The official language is Azerbaijani, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +994 and websites commonly use the .az internet domain.

In short, Azerbaijan is a landlocked country in Asia, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Baku. Azerbaijan has a population of about 10,241,722 and covers around 86,600 km² (33,436 sq mi), ranking it 93rd in the world by population and 111th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Azerbaijan.

The flag of Azerbaijan features three equal horizontal bands of blue, red and green, with a white fly-side facing crescent and eight-pointed star centered in the red band.

The flag of Azerbaijan is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.