Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower
A World Heritage Site in Azerbaijan, inscribed in 2000 as a Cultural Site. This page summarises the key facts: inscription year, category and location.
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Key facts
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Inscribed
- 2000
- Category
- Cultural Site
- Criteria
- (iv)
- Property area
- approx. 21.5 ha
- Component parts
- 1
- Coordinates
- 40.3667, 49.8333
- UNESCO ID
- 958
Source: factual data from UNESCO DataHub (whc001 / CC BY-SA 4.0). This site uses only factual information such as names, countries, inscription years and categories. No official UNESCO/WHC descriptions, photographs or logos are used.
Names in other languages
- French
- Cité fortifiée de Bakou avec le palais des Chahs de Chirvan et la tour de la Vierge
- Spanish
- Ciudad amurallada de Bakú, palacio de los sahs de Shirvan y Torre de la Doncella
- Chinese
- 城墙围绕的巴库城及其希尔凡王宫和少女塔
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