Baku (aze)

Baku

Baku ranks 89th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bologna, Tallinn, and Marseille. Memorable people born in Baku include Richard Sorge, Lev Landau, and Ilham Aliyev. Memorable people who died in Baku include Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Fikret Amirov, and Tofiq Bahramov. Baku has been the birth place of many singers and politicians and the death place of many writers and composers. Baku is located in Azerbaijan.

Baku is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus region. Baku is 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world below sea level. Baku lies on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, on the Bay of Baku. Baku's urban population was estimated at two million people as of 2009. Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 25% of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Read more on Wikipedia