Skip to content
Nakhchivan

File:NakchivanMontage2021.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ230104· pop 84· linked from 963 articles

Nakhchivan

Sign in to save

Also known as Nakhichevan

capital of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan

OverviewAI-generated

Nakhchivan is a city in Azerbaijan, serving as the capital of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. It has at various times been the capital of the Nakhichevan Khanate, the Nakhchivan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and the Nakhichevan uezd. The city is located at an elevation of 873 meters above sea level and is situated next to the Naxçıvançay river. Its official language is Azerbaijani, and it operates in the UTC+04:00 and UTC+05:00 time zones.

With a population of 95,100 and an area of 15 square kilometers, Nakhchivan has been established since 1500 BCE, with the earliest written record dating to 200. The city is twinned with Batumi, Brest, Veliko Tarnovo, and Kota Kinabalu. Its postal code is AZ 7000, and it uses license plate codes 70, 85, and 75.

Synthesized by Vinony from 53 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Openweathermap, Open Meteo, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Weather now

cached 19h ago
21°clear sky
49% 5.1 m/s OpenWeatherMap

7-day forecast

via Open-Meteo

Place details

Locality
Naxçıvan
Region
Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası
Country
Azərbaycan
Population
97,200
Timezone
Asia/Baku

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Air quality

64US AQIModerate
PM2.5
15.9 µg/m³
PM10
34.8 µg/m³
As of 2026-08-11 04:00 · Open-Meteo

~23 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Nakhchivan (Azerbaijani: Naxçıvan Azerbaijani pronunciation: [nɑxtʃɯˈvɑn]; Armenian: Նախիջևան, romanized: Nakhijevan) is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, a true exclave of Azerbaijan, located 450 km (280 mi) west of Baku. The municipality of Nakhchivan consists of the city of Nakhchivan, the settlement of Əliabad and the villages of Başbaşı, Bulqan, Haciniyyət, Qaraçuq, Qaraxanbəyli, Tumbul, Qarağalıq, and Daşduz. It is spread over the foothills of Zangezur Mountains, on the right bank of the Nakhchivan River at an altitude of 873 m (2,864 ft) above sea level.

Toponymy

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nakhchivan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (12)

On the map