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Ganja
Name for the cannabis plant

Ganja

Ganja or ganjah is one of the oldest and most commonly used synonyms for cannabis flower, specifically marijuana or hashish.

Plan a trip to Ganja→From Nakhchivan

Its usage in English dates to before 1689, borrowed from Hindi and Sanskrit gāñjā.

Get in

Getting to Ganja

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    Gəncə Beynəlxalq Hava Limanı
  2. 02
    Gəncə Dəmiryol Stansiyası / Ganja Railway Station
  3. 03
    Yeni Şəmkir Avtovağzal

    R50 highway in the north-western corner of the city (1.5 km northwest of the Hotel Ramada Plaza (which is on the corner of Nizami Ganjavi and 28 May küç).

See

Worth seeing

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    Xatirə

    It is claimed to be the world's 5th largest park complex, and the largest in Azerbaijan and the Caucasus.

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    World War II memorial and grave

    The Old City of Ganja was developed starting in the 16th century.

  3. 03
    Gəncə Filarmoniyası
  4. 04
    Aleksandr Nevski Rus Pravoslav Kilsəsi
  5. 05
    Bottle House
Do

Things to do

Go to the "Kolkhoz bazaar" and have a breakfast of fresh fruits, vegetables and dairy products. Enjoy a hot day in the shade of plane trees in the Khan Garden, and in the evening, get some cup of tea with old-timers in one of the cosy tea houses (Chaykhana). Invite yourself to Ganjali wedding. Gaming cafés are popular with locals and will only cost 1-2 manat an hour and you pay for the tea/beer.

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    Gəncə Dövlət Dram Teatrı
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    CinemaPlus "Khamsa Park"

    4th floor of shopping mall.

Eat

Where to eat

The list of top dishes of Ganjali cuisine (special recipes): Dovğа Xan aşı Yarpaq dolması Göy kətəsi Şorqoğalı Nazik Gəncə paxlavası Gəncə halvası Şəkərbura

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    Furor Restaurant and Pub

    90 Shah Ismayil Khetayi Ave / Heydər Əliyev prospekti 90, +994 70 2002001, furorrestaurant@gmail.com.

How locals move

Getting around Ganja the local way

  • Get inQazakh – Regular marshrutkas, 2 hr 10 min, 5 manat as of July 2026.
  • Get inThe other option is to take a marshrutka from the Yeni Şemkir Bus Station to Qazakh (Qazax) (2 hr 10 min, 5 manat as of July 2026).
  • Get inWhile the frequency is unknown one marshrutka departs at 08:00.
  • Get inFrom the same location in Qazakh (where the service from Ganja terminates) frequent marshrutkas signed KR.Most / Krasny Most (1 hr 15 min, 5 manat as of July 2026) go to the border crossing at Red Bridge (Krasny Most, Qırmızı Körpü, Tsiteli Khidi), from where you can catch a marshrutka to Tbilisi (1 hr, 5 lari).
  • Go nextGanja is the gateway to Lesser Caucasus region, where you can take few day trips from city: Göygöl – A must visit German town in the suburbs of Ganja, formerly named Khanlar (Xanlar) and Helenendorf, founded by German farmers from Bavarian Swabia.

From Wikivoyage: Ganja, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Marcin Konsek (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.