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Balakan District

district of Azerbaijan
AdministrativeArea district_of_azerbaijan Q330850

Facts

18 properties
Instance of
district of Azerbaijan
Inception
August 8, 1930[8]
Country
Azerbaijan[3]
Official website
balaken-ih.gov.az[10]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 41.717°, 46.400°[9]
Area
+923
Capital
Balakan[4]
Elevation above sea level
+496
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Azerbaijan/Balakən
Language used
Avar, Pannonian Avar
Licence plate code
08[6]
Local dialing code
994 24[7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic[2]
Native label
Билкан район, Balakən rayonu[18][19]
Office held by head of government
governor[16]
Population
98k (59k–98k, n=5)[11][12][13][14][15]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 59,100 · 68,300 · 83,700 · 89,800 · 97,600 GeoNames 100,700 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Postal code
0800[5]
Topic has template
Template:Balakan District[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Balakan District ar مقاطعة بالاكن cs Balakan cs Balakən de AZ-BAL el Μπαλακάν fa رایون بالاکن fa بالاکن fa بخش بالاکن fa شهرستان بالاکن fi Balakan fi Balakənin piirikunta fi Belokanyn piirikunta fr Balakan hi बालकन ज़िला hu Balakəni járás it distretto di Balakən ja バラカン県 ja バラキャン県 ko 발라켄구
🔖 Identifiers · 18
VIAF cluster ID
311462586
GND ID
1287966446
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Balaken, Azerbaijan.jpg ↗
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
AJ10
Facebook username
BalakenRIH
Freebase ID
/m/055n16
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2705309
GeoNames ID
587010
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1052670
INaturalist place ID
97562
ISO 3166-2 code
AZ-BAL
Instagram username
balaken_rayon_icra_hakimiyyeti
Show all 18 identifiers +6
Mindat locality ID
265215
OpenStreetMap relation ID
3764542
Topic's main category
Category:Balakan District
X (Twitter) username
balakenrih
YouTube channel ID
UC7K0GAoZ8BoLKpXRMLrzjpQ
YouTube handle
balaknrayonicrahakimiyyti5159

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 63
Balakan, İtitala, Katekh, Mahamalar, Xalatala, Yeni Şərif, Hənifə, Kortala +55 more
Language used 2
Avar, Pannonian Avar
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
← Category combines topics 2
Category:Populated places in Balakan District, Category:People from Balakan District
← Indigenous to 2
Avar, Lezgian
Capital 1
Balakan
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Balakan District
Country 1
Azerbaijan
Office held by head of government 1
governor
People born here 1
Murad Ahmadiyev
Topic has template 1
Template:Balakan District
Topic's main category 1
Category:Balakan District
← Capital of 1
Balakan
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Balakan District
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Azerbaijan
← Template has topic 1
Template:Balakan District
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Summary

Balakan District is a district of Azerbaijan[1].

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Physical Characteristics

Balakan District covers an area of {'amount': '+923'}[20]. It sits at an elevation of {'amount': '+496'}[21].

Related Entities

Azerbaijan Balakan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 1287966446
    Population → {'amount': '+59100'}, {'amount': '+68300'}, {'amount': '+83700'} +2
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56499|batch #56499]]: Import GND IDs via DNB dump"
  2. 10w ago · Nemoralis · 2026-08-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → —
    Category for people who died here → Category:Deaths in Balakan District
    Country → —
    Website → —
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Population: 97,700, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1787525367897"
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