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Nakhchivan

City in Azerbaijan

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Nakhchivan is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, a true exclave of Azerbaijan, located 450 km (280 mi) west of Baku.

Plan a trip to Nakhchivan From Ganja

The municipality of Nakhchivan consists of the city of Nakhchivan, the settlement of Əliabad and the villages of Başbaşı, Bulqan, Haciniyyət, Qaraçuq, Qaraxanbəyli, Tumbul, Qarağalıq, and Daşduz. It is spread over the foothills of Zangezur Mountains, on the right bank of the Nakhchivan River at an altitude of 873 m (2,864 ft) above sea level.

Get in

Getting to Nakhchivan

  1. 01
    Nakhchivan International Airport

    Flights from Baku, Ganja, Istanbul and Moscow-Vnukovo.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Momine Khatun Mausoleum

    A tall octagonal tomb tower from the 12th century with kufic Arabic calligraphy and ceramic design.

  2. 02
    Noah's Tomb

    The supposed tomb of the prophet Noah (although Palestine and Jordan would disagree).

How locals move

Getting around Nakhchivan the local way

  • Get inMinibuses depart from the tiny bus station in front of the airport, just across the parking lot.
  • Get inFare is 0.30 manat for travel in town, almost all of them will stop at the long distance bus terminal (Avtovagzal) in the north of town, where one can catch also minibuses to other parts of the enclave.
  • Get inTaxi to Nakhchivan City outside the immigration building: Private taxi: 15 manat (2017) Shared taxi: 3 manat per person (2017) Minibus to Nakhchivan City: 1 manat from the bus terminal in the center of town (2019) 10 minutes walk from the immigration building.
  • Get aroundIt is easy to catch minibuses to every village in Nakhchivan from the main bus station (Avtovagzal) in Nakhchican City.
  • Get aroundDrivers as well as other passengers are extremely helpful and will go out of their way to help you find the right minibus for you, sometimes by calling an English speaking friend who will translate for you.
  • Get aroundThere are hourly minibuses from Nakhchivan to Culfa which will also drop you near the border control post near the Iranian border.

From Wikivoyage: Nakhchivan (region), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Rafiz gasımov (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.