Azerbaijan40.40° N, 47.21° E
No coast at all — every one of its 2,468 km of border is shared with another country.
coastline 0 km · 185th/229 · land borders 2,468 km · 78th/230
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The name Azerbaijan can be translated as "Fire Keeper" or "The Land of Fire", from the local "azer", meaning "fire", and "baydjan", derived from the Iranian "baykan", meaning "guardian"; it may refer to fire worshippers who lived in the region.
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The country's ethnic groups include Azerbaijani, Talish, Russian, Avar, Sakhur, Tartar, Georgian, Jewish, and Kurd. Its languages include Azerbaijani, Russian, Avar, Talyshi, Turkish, Tatar, Sakhur, Tat, Ukrainian, Georgian, and Hebrew. The religious affiliations are Muslim, predominantly Shia, Christian, other affiliations, and unaffiliated.
The highest population density is found in the far eastern area of the country, in and around Baku. Apart from smaller urbanized areas, the rest of the country has a fairly light and evenly distributed population.
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Three equal horizontal bands of sky blue, red, and green run from top to bottom, with a vertical white crescent moon and eight-pointed star centered in the red band. The blue band stands for Azerbaijan's Turkic heritage, red for modernization and progress, and green for Islam; the crescent and star are a Turkic insignia. The star's eight points represent the eight Turkic peoples of the world. The national symbol is flames of fire.
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