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title: "Azerbaijan — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Azerbaijan: capital Baku, area 86,600 km², population 10,246,996 (2025), currency Azerbaijani manat. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/azerbaijan/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Azerbaijan

**Azerbaijan: Capital Baku**

86,600 km² · 10,246,996 people (2025) · Azerbaijani manat

On the Caspian Sea, whose surface is about 28 m below sea level. Azerbaijan has more mud volcanoes than any other country — several hundred of the world's roughly thousand — and the burning gas seep at Yanar Dag has been alight for decades.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Baku
- **Area:** 86,600 km² — 33,436 sq mi
- **Population:** 10,246,996 (2025)
- **Density:** 118.3 people per km²
- **Currency:** Azerbaijani manat (AZN, ₼)
- **Official language:** Azerbaijani
- **Time zone:** UTC+04:00
- **Calling code:** +994
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** AZ · AZE
- **Continent:** Asia

## How it compares

- **By area:** 112 of 200
- **By population:** 95 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Portugal | 92,090 | 10,804,871 |
| Jordan | 89,342 | 11,520,684 |
| Azerbaijan ← | 86,600 | 10,246,996 |
| Austria | 83,871 | 9,208,163 |
| United Arab Emirates | 83,600 | 11,513,149 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Azerbaijan?

Baku

### What currency does Azerbaijan use?

The Azerbaijani manat (AZN).

### How big is Azerbaijan?

86,600 km², or 33,436 square miles — 112 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Azerbaijan drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Portugal](https://atoneplace.net/country/portugal/)
- [Jordan](https://atoneplace.net/country/jordan/)
- [Austria](https://atoneplace.net/country/austria/)
- [United Arab Emirates](https://atoneplace.net/country/united-arab-emirates/)
- [India](https://atoneplace.net/country/india/)
- [China](https://atoneplace.net/country/china/)
- [Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country/indonesia/)
- [Pakistan](https://atoneplace.net/country/pakistan/)
- [Bangladesh](https://atoneplace.net/country/bangladesh/)
- [Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country/japan/)
- [Philippines](https://atoneplace.net/country/philippines/)
- [Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country/vietnam/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]