Lökbatan

Lökbatan
Municipality
Lökbatan
Coordinates: 40°19′38″N 49°43′48″E / 40.32722°N 49.73000°E / 40.32722; 49.73000Coordinates: 40°19′38″N 49°43′48″E / 40.32722°N 49.73000°E / 40.32722; 49.73000
Country  Azerbaijan
City Baku
Raion Qaradağ
Population (2008)[1]
 • Total 33,245
Time zone UTC+4 (AZT)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+5 (AZT)

Lökbatan is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 33,245. The municipality consists of the settlements of Lökbatan, Şubanı, and Heybət.[2] It is the location of a large mud volcano, and a historic oilfield. One of the first moving pictures filmed in Azerbaijan was of an oil well blowout in the 1930s. The mud volcano produced spectacular flames of natural gas in October 2001.[3]

Culture

Sports

The city has one professional football team, Qaradağ Lökbatan, currently competing in the second-flight of Azerbaijani football, the Azerbaijan First Division.[4]

References

  1. ↑ World Gazetteer: Azerbaijan Archived 2011-06-22 at the Wayback Machine. – World-Gazetteer.com
  2. ↑ "Belediyye Informasiya Sistemi" (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on September 24, 2008.
  3. ↑ Azer News article
  4. ↑ ""Neftçi" İSM "Qaradağ" oldu". ekpress.az (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 3 September 2011.


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