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Baku

Capital of Azerbaijan

Watercolour of Baku, Azerbaijan. Baku rising from the Caspian waterfront into the sloping walled old city, with the dry Absheron landscape implied beyond the urban area. Featuring The Maiden Tower and The Palace of the Shirvanshahs.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
The Maiden Tower; The Palace of the Shirvanshahs; The Flame Towers; Icherisheher’s walls, compact stone houses and courtyards; Heydar Aliyev Center
Viewpoint
Use a moderately elevated waterfront-side view toward Icherisheher, including the distant Flame Towers only at their real hillside position, so the familiar old-and-new postcard retains a believable urban geography.
Palette
For this arid Caspian city, explicitly shift the greens toward grey-green, olive, dusty sage and pale khaki; cool sand-beige limestone, blue-grey water and slate-grey glass should carry most of the picture, with restrained sage in the boulevard planting.
Guarded against
Avoid making Baku look like Dubai with a flat forest of supertall towers, Istanbul with the Bosphorus and Ottoman mosque clusters, or Samarkand with dominant turquoise-tiled monuments.
Population2,351,300Wikidata: 2,122,300
Coordinates40.38°N, 49.89°E
Elevation-28 m
Area2,140 km²
Time zoneAsia/BakuUTC+4
Solar noon12:40clock runs 0.7 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Baku and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands — 1,702 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

TabrizIR402 km
TbilisiGE449 km
YerevanAM457 km
KarajIR515 km
TehranIR538 km
ErbilIQ693 km
KirkukIQ728 km
MosulIQ741 km

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