Rayons of Azerbaijan (with Accents)

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Andrew Leonard writes that someone on Wikipedia has asserted that there is a new rayon in the Naxçivan exclave named Kangarli. It was formed from parts of Babak and Sarur on 2004-03-14.

The Azerbaijan postal authority has a Web page for postal codes . It has a slightly different list of rayons from any of the other sources. In those cases where a rayon and a city have the same name, it only lists the rayon. That may only mean that they're combined for postal purposes. The postal site also lists the autonomous republic (MR) of Naxçivan as being divided up into seven rayons, one of which is also named Naxçivan. I think this is probably more accurate than ISO, which lists the MR but not the rayon of that name.

Based on this new information, I have added a new rayon, Culfa, to the list, and changed the type of Naxçivan from autonomous republic to rayon. I also found that I had Ordubad misspelled, so I fixed it.

ISO 3166-2 Newsletter Number I-2 was published on 2002-05-21. It changes the ISO code for Naxçivan from MM to NX. It also corrects the diacritical marks on four district names. Finally, it identifies the rayons that are part of Naxçivan, namely Babak, Culfa, Ordubad, Sadarak, Sahbuz, and Sarur.

International standard ISO 3166-2 was published on December 15, 1998. It superseded ISO/DIS 3166-2 (draft international standard), which came out in fall 1996. Change Notice 1 for FIPS PUB 10-4 is dated December 1, 1998. All three of these documents show Azerbaijan divided into units of three kinds: one autonomous republic, ten or eleven cities, and sixty-some rayons, or districts. They differ on the exact numbers.

After the end of Soviet rule, Azerbaijan chose a new alphabet based on the Roman alphabet. Many browsers are unable to display some of its special characters and diacritics. In the table below, diacritics are omitted, and the schwa is replaced by 'a'. If you want to see the original characters, try the fancy page.

Country overview: 

Short nameAZERBAIJAN
ISO codeAZ
FIPS codeAJ
LanguageAzeri (az)
Time zone+4 ~
CapitalBaku

 

Modern Azerbaijan corresponds quite closely to the Russian districts of Baku, Elizabethpol, and Zakataly at the beginning of the 20th century. The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan declared its independence on 1918-05-28. It was reconquered and incorporated into the Soviet Union on 1922-12-30, becoming part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republic. Under the Soviets, the territory of Zangezur (27,400 km.²) was transferred from Azerbaijan to Armenia, separating Nakhichevan from the rest of Azerbaijan. In 1936, Azerbaijan became a separate republic within the U.S.S.R. Azerbaijan declared its independence from the U.S.S.R. on 1991-08-30. Later that year, it abolished the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region as a separate entity.

Other names of country: 

  1. Azeri: Azarbaijchan Respublikasy, Azarbaycan Respublikasi (formal)
  2. Danish: Aserbajdsjan
  3. Dutch: Azerbaidzjan, Azerbeidzjan, Republiek Azerbeidzjan (formal)
  4. English: Azerbaijani Republic (formal)
  5. Finnish: Azerbaidzan
  6. French: Azerbaïdjan f
  7. German: Aserbaidschan n
  8. Icelandic: Aserbaídsjan
  9. Italian: Azerbaigian
  10. Norwegian: Aserbajdsjan, Republikken Aserbajdsjan (formal)
  11. Portuguese: Azerbaidjão (Brazil), Azerbaijão (Portugal), República f do Azerbaijão m (formal)
  12. Russian: Azerbaydzhan
  13. Spanish: Azerbaiyán, República f Azerbaiyana (formal)
  14. Swedish: Azerbajdzjan
  15. Turkish: Azerbaycan, Azerbaycan Cumhuriyeti (formal)

Origin of name: 

Named for Atropates, one of Alexander the Great's generals

Primary subdivisions: 

Azerbaijan is divided into 66 rayons (districts) and 11 cities, according to this list.

ISO NameTypHASCISOFIPSPost
AbseronrAZ.ARABSAJ0101
AgcabadirAZ.ACAGCAJ0204
AgdamrAZ.AMAGMAJ0302
AgdasrAZ.ASAGSAJ0403
AgstafarAZ.AFAGAAJ0505
AgsurAZ.AUAGUAJ0606
AstararAZ.AAASTAJ0807
BabakrAZ.BBBAB 67
BakicAZ.BABAAJ0910-11
BalakanrAZ.BLBALAJ1008
BardarAZ.BRBARAJ1109
BeylaqanrAZ.BQBEYAJ1212
BilasuvarrAZ.BSBILAJ1313
CabrayilrAZ.CBCABAJ1414
CalilabadrAZ.CLCALAJ1515
CulfarAZ.CF  72
DaskasanrAZ.DSDASAJ1616
DavaçirAZ.DVDAVAJ1717
Ali BayramlicAZ.ABABAJ0718
FüzulirAZ.FUFUZAJ1819
GadabayrAZ.GDGADAJ1921
GancacAZ.GAGAAJ2020
GoranboyrAZ.GRGORAJ2122
GöyçayrAZ.GYGOYAJ2223
HaciqabulrAZ.HAHACAJ2324
ImislirAZ.IMIMIAJ2430
IsmayillirAZ.ISISMAJ2531
KalbacarrAZ.KAKALAJ2632
KürdamirrAZ.KUKURAJ2733
LaçinrAZ.LCLACAJ2841
LankaranrAZ.LNLANAJ2942
LankarancAZ.LALAAJ3042
LerikrAZ.LELERAJ3143
MasallirAZ.MAMASAJ3244
MingaçevircAZ.MIMIAJ3345
NaftalancAZ.NANAAJ3446
NaxçivanrAZ.NXNXAJ3570
NeftçalarAZ.NENEFAJ3647
OguzrAZ.OGOGUAJ3748
OrdubadrAZ.ORORD 69
QaxrAZ.QXQAXAJ3934
QazaxrAZ.QZQAZAJ4035
QabalarAZ.QAQABAJ3836
QobustanrAZ.QOQOBAJ4137
QubarAZ.QBQBAAJ4240
QubadlirAZ.QDQBIAJ4339
QusarrAZ.QRQUSAJ4438
SaatlirAZ.STSATAJ4549
SabirabadrAZ.SBSABAJ4654
SahbuzrAZ.SHSAH 71
SalyanrAZ.SLSALAJ4952
SamaxirAZ.SISMIAJ5056
SamuxrAZ.SXSMXAJ5251
SadarakrAZ.SDSAD 73
SakirAZ.SKSAKAJ4755
SakicAZ.SASAAJ4855
SamkirrAZ.SMSKRAJ5157
SarurrAZ.SRSAR 68
SiyazanrAZ.SYSIYAJ5353
SumqayitcAZ.SQSMAJ5450
SusarAZ.SUSUSAJ5558
SusacAZ.SSSSAJ5658
TartarrAZ.TATARAJ5759
TovuzrAZ.TOTOVAJ5860
UcarrAZ.UCUCAAJ5961
XaçmazrAZ.XZXACAJ6027
XankandicAZ.XAXAAJ6126
XanlarrAZ.XRXANAJ6225
XizirAZ.XIXIZAJ63 
XocalirAZ.XCXCIAJ6429
XocavandrAZ.XDXVDAJ6528
YardimlirAZ.YRYARAJ6665
YevlaxrAZ.YVYEVAJ6766
YevlaxcAZ.YEYEAJ6866
ZaqatalarAZ.ZQZAQAJ7062
ZangilanrAZ.ZGZANAJ6964
ZardabrAZ.ZRZARAJ7163
  • Name: In the FIPS standard, two spellings differ slightly:
    Mingacevir instead of Mingaçevir, and Xizi instead of Xizi.
  • Type: r = rayon; c = city. Sumqayit is a rayon according to FIPS.
  • HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes.
  • ISO: Province codes from ISO 3166-2. For full identification in a
    global context, prefix "AZ-" to the code (ex: AZ-SAL represents Salyan).
  • FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4, a U.S. government standard. Where
    this column is blank, FIPS has no listing.
  • Post: Azerbaijan has adopted a new system of postal codes. They
    have the format AZ nnnn, where the n's represent digits, and the first
    two digits correspond to the rayon.

 

Note: The Azerbaijani postal site has some rayon names spelled differently from the ISO directory. It uses Göranboy instead of Goranboy and Tar-Tar instead of Tartar. The postal site identifies Cabrayil, Füzuli, Kalbacar, Laçin, Qubadli, Susa, Xankandi, Xocali, Xocavand, and Zangilan as RRQ. Dominic Heaney, of Europa Publications , suggests that RRQ may designate areas not under the control of the central government.

Territorial extent: 

Nakhichevan is separated from the rest of Azerbaijan by a strip of Armenian territory. Nakhichevan includes a tiny exclave inside Armenia, near Ararat. The chief village in this exclave is Kiarki (Tigranashen). Azerbaijan also has two small exclaves inside Armenia, north of Idzhevan. They contain the Azerbaijani villages of Yukhari Askipara and Barkhudali (Sofulu), respectively. There are also two even tinier exclaves in Armenia belonging to Tatly, Azerbaijan.

Under the Soviet Union, Nagorno-Karabakh was an autonomous region (avtonomnaya oblast') within Azerbaijan, formed on 1923-07-07. It is now treated as an integral part of Azerbaijan. It has a substantial Armenian population which would like to unite with Armenia. Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh have no common border, but are only a few kilometers apart.

Origins of names: 

Nakhichevan: = City of Nakhich (man's name)

Change history: 

Under the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan was the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Azerbaydzhanskaya Sovyetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika). Nakhichevan was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Nakhichevanskaya Avtonomnaya Sovyetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika). Nagorno-Karabakh was an autonomous oblast (Nagorno-Karabakhskaya Avtonomnaya Oblast') with Stepanakert as its capital.

Other names of subdivisions: 

  1. Baki: Baku (English, Russian), Bakü (Turkish)
  2. Nagorno-Karabakh: Artsakh, Arzach (Armenian)
  3. Naxçivan: Nahcivan (Turkish), Nakhichevan' (Russian)
  4. Xankandi: Stepanakert (obsolete, Armenian)
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