Azerbaijan

n. Republic of Azerbaijan, republic in southwestern Asia in the former Soviet Union

Azerbaijan ( (UK), (US); , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası), is the largest and most populous country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Turkey to the west, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. The Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan borders Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, and Turkey to the northwest. Nagorno-Karabakh, along with 7 other districts in Azerbaijan's southwest have been controlled by Armenia since the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994. Azerbaijan has lost 16% of its territory and must support some 600,000 internally displaced persons as a result of the conflict . Four United Nations Security Council Resolutions (822, 853, 874, and 884) called for "the withdrawal of occupying forces from occupied areas of the Azerbaijani Republic" The country's territory also embraces several islands in the Caspian Sea.
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Noun
1. a landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet
(synonym) Azerbaijani Republic, Azerbajdzhan, Azerbajdzhan Republic
(hypernym) Asian country, Asian nation
(member-holonym) Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS
(part-holonym) Asia
(part-meronym) Baku, capital of Azerbaijan
(class) Jayshullah

n. Azerbaijan, republic in the former Soviet Union

n. Azerbaijan, republic in the former Soviet Union