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Politics of Antigua and Barbuda
Movements
Movements Republicanism in Antigua and Barbuda Federalism in Antigua and Barbuda Barbudan independence movement
Politics of Antigua and Barbuda
Political pressure groups and leaders
Political pressure groups and leaders Antigua Trades and Labour Union People's Democratic Movement
Politics of Antigua and Barbuda
International organisation participation
International organisation participation Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States ALBA Caribbean Community Caribbean Development Bank Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Commonwealth of Nations United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Food and Agriculture...
Politics of Antigua and Barbuda
References
References
Politics of Antigua and Barbuda
Table of Content
Short description, Executive branch, Executive branch leadership, Legislative branch, Political parties and elections, Administrative divisions, Judicial branch, Movements, Political pressure groups and leaders, International organisation participation, References
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda
Short description
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda are via media in the telecommunications industry.
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda
Telephone
Telephone Telephones – main lines in use: 37,500 (2006) country comparison to the world: 168 Telephones – mobile cellular: 110,200 (2006) (APUA PCS, Cable & Wireless, Digicel) country comparison to the world: 177 Telephone system: domestic: good automatic telephone system international: 3 fiber optic submarine cables...
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda
Radio
Radio Radio broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 6, shortwave 0 (2002) + Radio Stations of Antigua and Barbuda Band / Freq. Call Sign Brand City of license Notes AM 620 V2C ABS Radio and TV Saint John's, Antigua ABS; 5 kW AM 1100 ZDK Radio ZDK Saint John's, Antigua Owner: Grenville Radio; 20 kW AM 1160 Unknown Radio Lighthous...
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda
Television
Television Television broadcast stations: 2 (1997) (including ABS-TV) Televisions: 31,000 (1997)
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda
Internet
Internet Internet Service Providers (ISPs): Cable & Wireless, Antigua Computer Technologies (ACT), Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA INET) Internet hosts: 2,215 (2008) country comparison to the world: 140 Internet users: 60,000 (2007) country comparison to the world: 158 Country codes: AG
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda
Demographics
Demographics +Internet Users by EthnicityQ48 EthnicQ55 Internet UseYesNoDon't know/Not statedAfrican descendent47.42%50.74%1.84%Caucasian/White83.27%16.03%0.70%East Indian/India58.66%40.08%1.26%Mixed (Black/White)64.34%33.35%2.31%Mixed (Other)61.22%37.62%1.16%Hispanic31.78%66.80%1.42%Syrian/Lebanese60.77%36.76%2.48%O...
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda
See also
See also Antigua and Barbuda History of telecommunication List of telecommunications terminology Outline of telecommunication
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda
References
References
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda
External links
External links Antigua and Barbuda, SubmarineCableMap.com Antigua and Barbuda Antigua
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda
Table of Content
Short description, Telephone, Radio, Television, Internet, Demographics, See also, References, External links
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
Short description
The Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force (ABDF) is the armed forces of Antigua and Barbuda. The ABDF has responsibility for several different roles: internal security, prevention of drug smuggling, the protection and support of fishing rights, prevention of marine pollution, search and rescue, ceremonial duties, assistanc...
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
Organisation
Organisation thumb|right|200px|380X Defender of the ABDF Coast Guard during the "Tradewinds 2013" joint training-exercise The ABDF consists of five branches: Antigua and Barbuda Regiment – comprises four line companies and is the infantry unit and fighting arm of the defence force. Service and Support Unit – provides a...
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
Defence Board
Defence Board The Defence Board is in charge of overseeing the leadership, management, and discipline of the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force as well as all other matters pertaining to it. The Defence Board has the authority to govern its work, how it will carry out its duties, and the responsibilities of its member...
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
Officers
Officers A person cannot be appointed to the force unless they have received a recommendation from a board, known as the Commissions Board in the Defence Act. This board is made up of the chairman, who is appointed by the Chief of Defence Staff; the Chairman of the Public Service Commission, or in his absence, the Vi...
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
Reserve forces
Reserve forces There are two classes in the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force Reserve. The soldiers enlisted, deemed to be enlisted, or re-engaged in accordance with this Part for service in that class; the Reserve soldiers of the second class who have, upon written application to the appropriate military authority, ...
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
Enlistment and terms of service
Enlistment and terms of service A recruiting officer will not enlist anyone in the Force unless they are satisfied that the potential recruit has received, comprehended, and wishes to be enlisted after receiving a notice in the prescribed form from anyone who wants to join the regular Force. A recruiting officer is ...
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
Former deployments
Former deployments In 1983, fourteen men of the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force were deployed to Grenada during the Operation Urgent Fury. In 1990, twelve soldiers were sent to Trinidad and Tobago after a failed coup attempt by a radical group against the constitutionally elected government headed by Prime Minister...
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
Current deployments
Current deployments Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
Alliances
Alliances – Mercian Regiment
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
See also
See also Regional Security System
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
References
References
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
General and cited references
General and cited references
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
External links
External links Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force official website Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force on Facebook Article on the ABDF by Dr Dion Phillips Category:National security of Antigua and Barbuda Category:Military units and formations established in 1981
Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
Table of Content
Short description, Organisation, Defence Board, Officers, Reserve forces, Enlistment and terms of service, Former deployments, Current deployments, Alliances, See also, References, General and cited references, External links
Antisemitism
short description
Antisemitism or Jew-hatred is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who harbours it is called an antisemite.See, for example: Whether antisemitism is considered a form of racism depends on the school of thought. Antisemitic tendencies may be motivated primarily by negative sent...
Antisemitism
Origin and usage
Origin and usage
Antisemitism
Etymology
Etymology thumb|1879 statute of the Antisemitic League The word "Semitic" was coined by German orientalist August Ludwig von Schlözer in 1781 to designate the Semitic group of languages—Aramaic, Arabic, Hebrew and others—allegedly spoken by the descendants of Biblical figure Shem, son of Noah.; The origin of "antis...
Antisemitism
Usage
Usage From the outset the term anti-Semitism bore special racial connotations and meant specifically prejudice against Jews. The term has been described as confusing, for in modern usage Semitic designates a language group, not a race. In this sense, the term is a misnomer, since there are many speakers of Semitic lang...
Antisemitism
Definition
Definition Though the general definition of antisemitism is hostility or prejudice against Jews, and, according to Olaf Blaschke, has become an "umbrella term for negative stereotypes about Jews", a number of authorities have developed more formal definitions. Writing in 1987, Holocaust scholar and City University of ...
Antisemitism
Evolution of usage
Evolution of usage In 1879, Wilhelm Marr founded the (Anti-Semitic League).Richard S. Levy, "Marr, Wilhelm (1819–1904)" in Identification with antisemitism and as an antisemite was politically advantageous in Europe during the late 19th century. For example, Karl Lueger, the popular mayor of fin de siècle Vienna, ski...
Antisemitism
Eternalism–contextualism debate
Eternalism–contextualism debate The study of antisemitism has become politically controversial because of differing interpretations of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. There are two competing views of antisemitism, eternalism, and contextualism. The eternalist view sees antisemitism as separate from ...
Antisemitism
Manifestations
Manifestations thumb|Jews (identified by the mandatory Jewish badge and Jewish hat) being burned. Antisemitism manifests itself in a variety of ways. René König mentions social antisemitism, economic antisemitism, religious antisemitism, and political antisemitism as examples. König points out that these different for...
Antisemitism
Religious antisemitism
Religious antisemitism thumb|The execution of Mariana de Carabajal (converted Jew), accused of a relapse into Judaism, Mexico City, 1601 Religious antisemitism, also known as anti-Judaism, is antipathy towards Jews because of their perceived religious beliefs. In theory, antisemitism and attacks against individual Je...
Antisemitism
Economic antisemitism
Economic antisemitism thumb|alt=Man kissing feet of another man with hooked nose, dropping money on his head|A World War II-era Slovak propaganda poster exhorts readers not to "be a servant to the Jew". The underlying premise of economic antisemitism is that Jews perform harmful economic activities or that economic ac...
Antisemitism
Racial antisemitism
Racial antisemitism thumb|A Jewish Soviet soldier taken prisoner by the German Army, August 1941. At least 50,000 Jewish soldiers were shot after selection. Racial antisemitism is prejudice against Jews as a racial/ethnic group, rather than Judaism as a religion. Racial antisemitism is the idea that the Jews are a di...
Antisemitism
Political antisemitism
Political antisemitism William Brustein defines political antisemitism as hostility toward Jews based on the belief that Jews seek national or world power. Yisrael Gutman characterizes political antisemitism as tending to "lay responsibility on the Jews for defeats and political economic crises" while seeking to "expl...
Antisemitism
Cultural antisemitism
Cultural antisemitism Louis Harap defines cultural antisemitism as "that species of anti-Semitism that charges the Jews with corrupting a given culture and attempting to supplant or succeeding in supplanting the preferred culture with a uniform, crude, "Jewish" culture." Similarly, Eric Kandel characterizes cultural an...
Antisemitism
Conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories Holocaust denial and Jewish conspiracy theories are also considered forms of antisemitism. Zoological conspiracy theories have been propagated by Arab media and Arabic language websites, alleging a "Zionist plot" behind the use of animals to attack civilians or to conduct espionage.
Antisemitism
New antisemitism
New antisemitism right|thumb|A sign held at a protest in Edinburgh, Scotland, January 2009 Starting in the 1990s, some scholars have advanced the concept of new antisemitism, coming simultaneously from the left, the right, and radical Islam, which tends to focus on opposition to the creation of a Jewish homeland in th...
Antisemitism
History
History Many authors see the roots of modern antisemitism in both pagan antiquity and early Christianity. Jerome Chanes identifies six stages in the historical development of antisemitism: Pre-Christian anti-Judaism in ancient Greece and Rome which was primarily ethnic in nature Christian antisemitism in antiquity and...
Antisemitism
Ancient world
Ancient world The first clear examples of anti-Jewish sentiment can be traced to the 3rd century BCE to Alexandria, the home to the largest Jewish diaspora community in the world at the time and where the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, was produced. Manetho, an Egyptian priest and historian of tha...
Antisemitism
Persecutions during the Middle Ages
Persecutions during the Middle Ages thumb|The massacre of the Banu Qurayza, a Jewish tribe in Medina, 627 In the late 6th century CE, the newly Catholicised Visigothic kingdom in Hispania issued a series of anti-Jewish edicts which forbade Jews from marrying Christians, practicing circumcision, and observing Jewish h...
Antisemitism
Reformation
Reformation Martin Luther, an ecclesiastical reformer whose teachings inspired the Reformation, wrote antagonistically about Jews in his pamphlet On the Jews and their Lies, written in 1543. He portrays the Jews in extremely harsh terms, excoriates them and provides detailed recommendations for a pogrom against them, ...
Antisemitism
17th century
17th century thumb|Etching of the expulsion of the Jews from Frankfurt in 1614 During the mid-to-late 17th century the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was devastated by several conflicts, in which the Commonwealth lost over a third of its population (over 3 million people), and Jewish losses were counted in the hundred...
Antisemitism
Enlightenment
Enlightenment In 1744, Archduchess of Austria Maria Theresa ordered Jews out of Bohemia but soon reversed her position, on the condition that Jews pay for their readmission every ten years. This extortion was known among the Jews as ("queen's money" in Yiddish). In 1752, she introduced the law limiting each Jewish fam...
Antisemitism
Voltaire
Voltaire According to Arnold Ages, Voltaire's "Lettres philosophiques, Dictionnaire philosophique, and Candide, to name but a few of his better known works, are saturated with comments on Jews and Judaism and the vast majority are negative".Ages Arnold. "Tainted Greatness: The Case of Voltaire's Anti-Semitism: The Test...
Antisemitism
Louis de Bonald and the Catholic Counter-Revolution
Louis de Bonald and the Catholic Counter-Revolution The counter-revolutionary Catholic royalist Louis de Bonald stands out among the earliest figures to explicitly call for the reversal of Jewish emancipation in the wake of the French Revolution. Bonald's attacks on the Jews are likely to have influenced Napoleon's dec...
Antisemitism
Imperial Russia
Imperial Russia thumb|upright=1.3|The victims of a 1905 pogrom in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine) Thousands of Jews were slaughtered by Cossack Haidamaks in the 1768 massacre of Uman in the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, the empress of Russia Catherine II forced the Jews into the Pale of Settlement – ...
Antisemitism
Islamic antisemitism in the 19th century
Islamic antisemitism in the 19th century Historian Martin Gilbert writes that it was in the 19th century that the position of Jews worsened in Muslim countries. Benny Morris writes that one symbol of Jewish degradation was the phenomenon of stone-throwing at Jews by Muslim children. Morris quotes a 19th-century travele...
Antisemitism
Secular or racial antisemitism
Secular or racial antisemitism thumb|Title page of the second edition of Das Judenthum in der Musik, published in 1869 thumb|Antisemitic agitators in Paris burn an effigy of Mathieu Dreyfus during the Dreyfus affair In 1850, the German composer Richard Wagner – who has been called "the inventor of modern antisemitism"...
Antisemitism
20th century
20th century thumb|upright=1.25|Public reading of the antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, Worms, Germany, 1935 Between 1900 and 1924, approximately 1.75 million Jews migrated to America, the bulk from Eastern Europe escaping the pogroms. This increase, combined with the upward social mobility of some Jews, contributed...
Antisemitism
Contemporary antisemitism
Contemporary antisemitism
Antisemitism
Holocaust denial
Holocaust denial Holocaust denial, the claim that the Nazi genocide of European Jews during the Second World War either never happened or is substantially exaggerated by historical accounts, is a form of antisemitism and conspiracy theory. Political movements seeking to revive the ideologies of the Nazis and other sta...
Antisemitism
Soviet antisemitism
Soviet antisemitism There have continued to be antisemitic incidents since WWII, some of which had been state-sponsored. In the Soviet Union, antisemitism was even used as an instrument for settling personal conflicts, starting with the conflict between Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky and continuing through numerous co...
Antisemitism
21st-century European antisemitism
21st-century European antisemitism Physical assaults against Jews in Europe have included beatings, stabbings, and other violence, which increased markedly, sometimes resulting in serious injury and death. A 2015 report by the US State Department on religious freedom declared that "European anti-Israel sentiment cross...
Antisemitism
21st-century Arab antisemitism
21st-century Arab antisemitism thumb|upright=1.25|Graffiti of a swastika on a building in the Palestinian city of Nablus, 2022 thumb|A boy holding a paper stating "we are the killers of the Jews" in the mourning ceremony for Qasem Soleimani at Mosalla of Tehran, 6 January 2020 Robert Bernstein, founder of Human Rights...
Antisemitism
21st-century antisemitism at universities
21st-century antisemitism at universities After the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October, antisemitism and anti-Jewish hate crimes around the world increased significantly. Multiple universities and university officials have been accused of systemic antisemitism. On 1 May 2024, the United States House of Repre...
Antisemitism
Black Hebrew Israelite antisemitism
Black Hebrew Israelite antisemitism thumb|upright=1.25|4% of African-Americans self-identified as Black Hebrew Israelites in 2019. Between 2019 and 2022, individuals motivated by Black Hebrew Israelitism committed five religiously motivated murders. Extremist groups of Black Hebrew Israelites believe that Jewish peop...
Antisemitism
Antisemitism on the internet
Antisemitism on the internet Antisemitism on the internet involves a complex interplay between social media dynamics, conspiracy theories, and the broader socio-political context. Social media platforms have proved fertile for breeding antisemitic rhetoric, particularly during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, du...
Antisemitism
Causes
Causes Antisemitism has been explained in terms of racism, xenophobia, projected guilt, displaced aggression, conspiracy theory, and the search for a scapegoat. Antisemitism scholar Lars Fischer writes that "scholars distinguish between theories that assume an actual causal (rather than merely coincidental) correlati...
Antisemitism
Prevention through education
Prevention through education Education plays an important role in addressing and overcoming prejudice and countering social discrimination. However, education is not only about challenging the conditions of intolerance and ignorance in which antisemitism manifests itself; it is also about building a sense of global cit...
Antisemitism
Geographical variation
Geographical variation A March 2008 report by the U.S. State Department found that there was an increase in antisemitism across the world, and that both old and new expressions of antisemitism persist. A 2012 report by the U.S. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor also noted a continued global increase in antis...
Antisemitism
''Antisemitica'' collections
Antisemitica collections There have been attempts to collect material deemed antisemitic, such as the Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism, an electronic version of the Antisemitism – An Annotated Bibliography published by De Gruyter Saur from 1984 to 2013 and which lists some 50,000 items including boo...
Antisemitism
See also
See also Anti-antisemitism Anti-Jewish violence in Central and Eastern Europe, 1944–1946 Anti-Semite and Jew, an essay by Jean-Paul Sartre Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence Antisemitism and the New Testament Babylonian captivity Calls for the destruction of Israel Centre for Research on Antisem...
Antisemitism
Notes
Notes
Antisemitism
References
References
Antisemitism
Citations
Citations
Antisemitism
Sources
Sources Attribution
Antisemitism
Further reading
Further reading online review . 3 volumes. online review of this book Nirenberg, David. Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013) 610 pp. Poliakov, Léon. The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 1: From the Time of Christ to the Court Jews, U...
Antisemitism
External links
External links Category:Prejudice and discrimination by type Category:Racism Category:Orientalism
Antisemitism
Table of Content
short description, Origin and usage, Etymology, Usage, Definition, Evolution of usage, Eternalism–contextualism debate, Manifestations, Religious antisemitism, Economic antisemitism, Racial antisemitism, Political antisemitism, Cultural antisemitism, Conspiracy theories, New antisemitism, History, Ancient world, Persec...
Economy of Azerbaijan
Short description
The economy of Azerbaijan is highly dependent on oil and gas exports, in particular since the completion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline. The transition to oil production in the late 1990s led to rapid economic growth over the period 1995–2014. Since 2014, GDP growth has slowed down substantially. Large oil reserv...
Economy of Azerbaijan
Economic history of Azerbaijan
Economic history of Azerbaijan
Economy of Azerbaijan
Republic era
Republic era Oil and gas are the most prominent products of Azerbaijan's economy. More than $60 billion was invested into Azerbaijan's oil sector by major international oil companies in AIOC consortium operated by BP. Oil production under the first of these production sharing agreements (PSAs), with the Azerbaijan Inte...
Economy of Azerbaijan
Macroeconomic trend
Macroeconomic trend thumb|right|Change in per capita GDP of Azerbaijan since 1973. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars. The following is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Azerbaijan at market pricesestimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in USD. Year Gross domes...
Economy of Azerbaijan
Sectors of the economy
Sectors of the economy
Economy of Azerbaijan
Agriculture
Agriculture Azerbaijan has the largest agricultural basin in the region. About 54.9 percent of Azerbaijan is agricultural lands. At the beginning of 2007 there were of utilized agricultural area. In the same year, the total wood resources counted . Azerbaijan's agricultural scientific research institutes are focused ...
Economy of Azerbaijan
Manufacturing
Manufacturing thumb|Marauder (Mine Protected Vehicle) is manufactured in Azerbaijan. In 2007, mining and hydrocarbon industries accounted for well over 95 percent of the Azerbaijani economy. Diversification of the economy into manufacturing industries remains a long-term issue. As of the late 2000s, the defense indust...
Economy of Azerbaijan
Financial and business services
Financial and business services The banking sector remains small in relation to the size of the Azerbaijani economy.
Economy of Azerbaijan
Telecommunications
Telecommunications The Azerbaijan telecommunications sector is embroiled in corruption. Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and his family own two of Azerbaijan's largest mobile providers (Azerfon and Azercell) through offshore companies and potentially control three-quarters of the mobile market in Azerbaijan. The thir...
Economy of Azerbaijan
Tourism
Tourism thumb|Petroglyphs in Gobustan dating back to 10,000 BC indicating a thriving culture. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site considered to be of "outstanding universal value". Tourism is an important part of the economy of Azerbaijan. The country was a well-known tourist spot in the 1980s. However, the fall of the...
Economy of Azerbaijan
Currency system
Currency system The Azerbaijani manat is the currency of Azerbaijani, denominated as the manat, subdivided into 100 qapik. The manat is issued by the Central Bank of Azerbaijan, the monetary authority of Azerbaijan. The ISO 4217 abbreviation is AZN. The Latinised symbol is (13px). The manat is held in a floating exch...
Economy of Azerbaijan
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Economy of Azerbaijan
Energy
Energy thumb|right|The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (green) is one of several pipelines running from Baku. Two-thirds of Azerbaijan is rich in oil and natural gas. The region of the Lesser Caucasus accounts for most of the country's gold, silver, iron, copper, titanium, chromium, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, comple...
Economy of Azerbaijan
Transportation
Transportation The convenient location of Azerbaijan on the crossroad of major international traffic arteries, such as the Silk Road and the south–north corridor, highlights the strategic importance of the transportation sector for the country's economy. The transport sector in the country includes roads, railways, av...
Economy of Azerbaijan
Regulation
Regulation Single window system shares needed information through a single gateway with all organizations serving in trade field, as well as abolishes useless processes and raises the effectiveness of cooperation among different parties. 73 economies implement single window system in the world. Azerbaijan started to im...
Economy of Azerbaijan
Poverty
Poverty
Economy of Azerbaijan
Other economic indicators
Other economic indicators Data from CIA World Factbook unless noted otherwise Investment (gross fixed) 17% of GDP (2011 est.) Household income or consumption by percentage share lowest 10%: 3.4% highest 10%: 27.4% (2008) Inflation rate (consumer prices) 1.1% (2012 est.) Agriculture utilized agricultural land: (...
Economy of Azerbaijan
See also
See also Azerbaijan and the International Monetary Fund List of companies of Azerbaijan Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan Agriculture in Azerbaijan Tourism in Azerbaijan Sheep farming in Azerbaijan
Economy of Azerbaijan
References
References
Economy of Azerbaijan
Further reading
Further reading Habibov, Nazim: "Poverty in Azerbaijan" in the Caucasus Analytical Digest No. 34
Economy of Azerbaijan
External links
External links Hübner, Gerald: "As If Nothing Happened? How Azerbaijan's Economy Manages to Sail Through Stormy Weather" in the Caucasus Analytical Digest No. 18 Azerbaijan
Economy of Azerbaijan
Table of Content
Short description, Economic history of Azerbaijan, Republic era, Macroeconomic trend, Sectors of the economy, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Financial and business services, Telecommunications, Tourism, Currency system, Infrastructure, Energy, Transportation, Regulation, Poverty, Other economic indicators, See also, Refer...
Geography of Azerbaijan
Short description
thumb|300px|Azerbaijan map of Köppen climate classification zones Azerbaijan is a country in the Caucasus region, situated at the juncture of Eastern Europe and West Asia. Three physical features dominate Azerbaijan: the Caspian Sea, whose shoreline forms a natural boundary to the east; the Greater Caucasus mountain r...
Geography of Azerbaijan
Topography and drainage
Topography and drainage thumb|300px|right|Topographic map of Azerbaijan The elevation changes over a relatively short distance from lowlands to highlands; nearly half the country is considered mountainous. Notable physical features are the gently undulating hills of the subtropical southeastern coast, which are covered...