Goychay (city)

Coordinates: 40°39′11″N 47°44′26″E / 40.65306°N 47.74056°E

Goychay Göyçay
City & Municipality
Goychay
Coordinates: 40°39′11″N 47°44′26″E / 40.65306°N 47.74056°E
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Goychay
Founded	1916
Elevation	115 m (377 ft)
Population (2010)[1]
• Total	37,280
Time zone	AZT (UTC+4)
• Summer (DST)	AZT (UTC+5)
Area code(s)	+994 167
Website	Official website

Goychay (also, Göyçay, Gekchai, Geokchai, Geokchay, Geoktschai, Geokčaj, Geychay, and Göychay) is a city and municipality in and the capital of the Goychay Rayon of Azerbaijan. The municipality includes the city of Goychay and the nearby village of Qızılqaya.^[2]

As of December 2004 the urban population was 35,344^[3]

Concerted settlement dates back to the late 1850s following the devastating 1859 earthquake in Shemakha, though the town was only officially incorporated as such in 1916.^[4]

Notable natives

• Enver Mammadkhanli — writer, Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan SSR.^[5]
• Mirza Khazar — prominent radio journalist, essayist, translator of the Bible in Azeri language.
• Rasul Rza — writer, People's Poet of Azerbaijan (1960).^[6]
• Sadykh bey Aghabekov — general in the Russian Imperial Army, founder and reformer of Azerbaijani Police, Major General, Orientalist.

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Tovuz is twinned with various cities.

Valmontone, Italy, (since 2014)[7]

References

1. World Gazetteer: Azerbaijan – World-Gazetteer.com
2. "Belediyye Informasiya Sistemi" (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on September 24, 2008.
3. Goychay
4. Goychay
5. "Мамедханлы Энвер Гафар оглы". Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
6. "Расул Рза". Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
7. "Azerbaijan`s Goychay, Italy` Valmontone become sister cities". sia.az. Retrieved 18 November 2014.

External links

• Goychay (city) at GEOnet Names Server