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Qakh

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Also known as Qax

city in Azerbaijan

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Qax is a city in Azerbaijan that serves as the capital of Qakh District within Zakatala Okrug. The official language is Azerbaijani, and the city operates in the UTC+04:00 time zone. It is situated at an elevation of 596 meters above sea level. The population is recorded as 13,800, with a postal code of AZ 3400.

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Place details

Locality
Qax
Region
Qax
Country
Azərbaycan
Population
11,992
Timezone
Asia/Baku

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Key facts

Country
Azerbaijan
District
Qakh
Elevation
596 m (1,955 ft)
Total
13,800
Time zone
UTC+4 ( AZT )
Area code
+994 144

via Wikipedia infobox

Travel guide

Understand

Most of the 13,800 people (2013) of the Qakh city are Azerbaijani people, but the town and the whole region are very multicultural. Avar people, Tsakhur people and Muslim Georgians (called Ingiloy) also live here. The city has become a mountain resort for rich people, so there are now various hotels, resorts, restaurants, cottages, and tea houses in 5 km north of Qax.

Get around

Qax is a tiny town and can easily be explored on foot.

See

thumb|right|300px|Old walls in Qax

Go next

Qum – Another tiny and scenic village just nearby. Zaqatala – Larger and more busy than Qax, and the gateway to Georgia. Sheki – A beautiful city in the forested Caucasian Mountains with lots to see and do. At least three marshrutkas a day leave from Qax to Tbilisi, Georgia.

Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Encyclopedic overview

41°25′21″N 46°55′27″E / 41.42250°N 46.92417°E / 41.42250; 46.92417

Qakh (Azerbaijani: Qax, Georgian: კახი) is the capital of the Qakh District in the north of Azerbaijan, near the Russian border.

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

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