Global Sourcebook for International Data Management
by Graham Rhind
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Azerbaijan
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| AZERBAIJAN |
After military action in September 2023, Azerbaijan retook control of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, previously held by Armenian separatists. Almost the whole of the population of that territory has fled to Armenia, and the separatist government has declared the territory dissolved as of 1st January 2024.
For supplementary information, see links to post office home pages here , to postal code pages here
and to other personal name and addressing issues pages here
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Azerbaijan - Country information
Local short name form
Official name
Area
Population
Capital
Currency
International telephone access code
ISO 3166 country codes
Car nationality plate code
Internet country code
GRC Country Code
Azerbaijan - Number format
1 234,45
(where , indicates the decimal separator and a space the thousands separator)
Azerbaijan - Date and time formats
Azerbaijan - Languages
The official language, North Azerbaijani , is spoken by some 6 069 453 people. Though this has been written officially in the Latin script since the breakup of the Soviet Union, many people still use Cyrillic script. Cyrillic was officially disgarded as an Azeri script on 1st August 2001. Armenian
is spoken in and around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. There are 44 000 Avar
-speakers; 2 000 Budukh
-speakers (no written form); 24 000 Judeo-Tat
-speakers; 1 500 Khinalugh
-speakers; 6 000 Kryts
-speakers (no written form); 20 000 Kurmanji
-speakers (Kurdish); 171 400 Lezgi
-speakers; 130 000 Talysh
-speakers (speakers are bilingual in Azerbaijani); 22 000 Muslim-Tat
-speakers (no written form); 13 000 Tsakhur
-speakers and 4 200 Udi
-speakers (no written form).
Azerbaijan - Personal names and forms of address
Note: This section last updated 3rd January 2016
Personal names may be formed using the Russian system or a Turkic system. In either case, the name is built using the patronymic system, showing filiality to the father.
In the Russian system, the given name is followed by the patronymic and then by the family name is this way:
Ismail Araz ogly Mamedov Fatimah Araz gyzy Mamedova
Ogly means “son of” and gyzy (or kizy) means “daughter of”, both being Azeri words. Note that the family name is feminized for women. The family name is used in correspondence rather than the full name or the patronymic name.
The Turkic version would have the same format except that the family name endings are changed in this way:
Ismail Araz ogly Mamedli Fatimah Araz gyzy Mamedly
The Turkic system is becoming increasingly popular, but both are used. Some family names are gender neutral and do not change for males and females, such as those ending in –li (“belonging to”) and those ending in –zade.
Given names are regulated on a traffic light principle. Names considered acceptable get a green light, those not recommended have a red light. Foreigners’ names get an amber light. Authorities can, and do, refuse to allow some names to be given.
Tables of names can be acquired: given names, surnames/family names
Azerbaijan - Company legal forms
Azerbaijani company types include:
General Partnership Limited Partnership Limited Liability Company Additional Liability Company Joint Stock Company
Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm
Azerbaijan - Address format
Note: This section last updated 7th May 2020
Azerbaijani addresses are written in the format:
number[ ]Thoroughfare name{[, ]Apartment or floor number
postal code[ ]Settlement{[-]sorting code}
For example:
When written in Azeri, house numbers are often written following the thoroughfare name:
İsmayıl Qutqaşınlı 30 AZ1100 Baku
Ələsgər Ələkbərov küçəsi, 22 AZ1100 Baku
Building information may include block, house and floor information in this way:
523-cu məhəllə 9 M, Mətbuat Evi, 10-ci mərtəbə
meaning
523 block 9 M, Press House, 10th floor
Addresses are also often found without a postal code or with the postal code following the settlement name.
A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired
Azerbaijan - Postal codes
Note: This section last updated 7th May 2020
These are called Poçt İndeksi in Azerbaijani. On 1st April 2003, Azerbaijan changed their postal code system from the block of 6 digits inherited from the Soviet Union, into codes in this format:
[AZ ]9999
or
[AZ]9999
Codes may also be found with a hyphen between the AZ and the numbers.
The digits can begin with any number between 01 and 74 or 80.
Though all areas of Nagorno-Karabakh have Azeri postal codes assigned to them, many businesses there still use the 6-digit postal code from Soviet times, commencing 375.
Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired
Azerbaijan - Postal code format graphic
Azerbaijan - Postal code format
Azerbaijan - Postal code specifics
Azerbaijan - Postal code regular expression
\A((AZ )[0-6][0-9][0-9][0-9]|(AZ )[7][0-4][0-9][0-9]|(AZ )[80][0-9][0-9]|(AZ)[0-6][0-9][0-9][0-9]|(AZ)[7][0-4][0-9][0-9]|(AZ)[80][0-9][0-9])\Z
Azerbaijan - Postal code level of coverage
Azerbaijan - Postal code map
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The coloured areas show Nagorno-Karabakh and areas previously controlled by Armenian separatists.
Place names in Azerbaijan
Note: This section last updated 27th March 2014
Many settlements previously known by their Russian names have Azeri equivalents which should be used.
The city of Khanlar/Xanlar is now known as Goygol/Göygöl/Goygöl. Ali Bayramil is now known as Shirvan.
Refer to Exonyms in Azerbaijan for full lists of place names in Azerbaijan in other languages.
Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http:www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm
Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm
Azerbaijan - Administrative districts
Note: This section last updated 13th October 2023
Azerbaijan has 66 rayons (rayonlar, singular -rayon), 12 cities (saharlar; singular - saharr, shown in the list below with an asterisk) and 1 autonomous republic (muxtar respublika, shown in the list below with a §). The rayon names are not used in addresses:
Administrative districts graphic
Telephone numbers in Azerbaijan
Note: This section last updated 10th March 2020
Azerbaijani telephone numbers, when called from abroad, have a total length of between 8 and 9 digits. Mobile numbers are all 9 digits in length and have the area code 10, 40, 44, 50-51, 55, 60, 70, 77 or 99.
References
- ^ citypopulation.de/Azerbaijan.html
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