1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Azerbaijan
Compare this sourced profile of Baku, Azerbaijan before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Baku—2,351,300, Asia/Baku, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Baku is GeoNames ID 587084. Its recorded administrative path is Baki → Azerbaijan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Baku occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-06-02; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Baku ranks 165 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Azerbaijan entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 104. Its 2,351,300 population value is 1.00 times the 2,351,300 median for the country cohort and 2.33 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Baku is rank 1 among the 1 selected Azerbaijan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Baku's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Baku's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Rasht at 345.877 km with 594,590 recorded people; Makhachkala at 350.747 km with 596,356 recorded people; Tabriz at 401.723 km with 1,424,641 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 55.846 km. Compared with Rasht, Baku's recorded population is 3.95 times as large. Against Baku, Rasht follows Gilan Province → Iran in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Iran cohort rather than Azerbaijan, uses Asia/Tehran instead of Asia/Baku, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Baku's. Against Baku, Makhachkala follows Dagestan → Russia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Russia cohort rather than Azerbaijan, uses Europe/Moscow instead of Asia/Baku, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Baku's. Against Baku, Tabriz follows East Azerbaijan → Iran in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Iran cohort rather than Azerbaijan, uses Asia/Tehran instead of Asia/Baku, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Baku's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,140 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Baku's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 587084, the coordinate pair 40.3777 / 49.8920, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 118743 at 345.877 km bind Baku to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Baku's reference point is 40.3777° north and 49.8920° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Baku is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Baku's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Baku's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Baku's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Baku, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Baku's closest other entries in this atlas are Rasht (345.877 km), Makhachkala (350.747 km), Tabriz (401.723 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-02; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.