Qahab
Sign in to saveQahab (also, Gahab and Kakhab) is a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the 2 km from the Nakhchivan-Sirab highway, 15 km in the north-east from the district center, on the slope of the Zangezur range. Its population is busy with grain-growing, beekeeping and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library, mosque and culture house in the village. It has a population of 2,691.
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- Locality
- Qahab
- Region
- Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası
- Country
- Azərbaycan
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Qahab
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Azerbaijan
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous republic
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Nakhchivan
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Babek
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_total
- 2691
- Settlement.timezone
- AZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +4
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 1022
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- Etymology
- Qahab
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Qahab (also, Gahab and Kakhab) is a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the 2 km from the Nakhchivan-Sirab highway, 15 km in the north-east from the district center, on the slope of the Zangezur range. Its population is busy with grain-growing, beekeeping and animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library, mosque and culture house in the village. It has a population of 2,691.
==Etymology== The name of the village is related with name of the Qahab River. The Qahab River is the left tributary of the Nakhchivanchay River. The name was made up with components of the Persian words of Qah (plain) and Ab (water) means (the river which flowing in plain).
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