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Lənkəran

Lankaran

Seal

Country

Azerbaijan

City

Lankaran

Area

• Total

70 km² (30 sq mi)

Population

(2010)

• Total

83,300

Time zone

UTC+4 (AZT)

• Summer (DST)

UTC+5 (AZT)

Lankaran (also called Länkäran, Lencoran, and Lenkoran’) is a city in Azerbaijan. It is on the coast of the Caspian Sea, near the southern border of Iran. There were 83,300 people living there in 2010. It is next to Lankaran rayon. Lankaran was for a long time the capital of the Talysh Khanate. Lankaran International Airport is the airport for the city. There are sandy beaches near Lankaran.

The old form of the name was "Langarkanan". In Persian, it means "the place of pulling up the anchor(s)".

Education
Sports
Notable natives
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Education

Lankaran State University was started in 1991.

Sports

Khazar Lankaran plays football in the Azerbaijan Premier League.
In 2012, the city won to host European Masters Weightlifting Championship.

Notable natives

Jahan Talyshinskaya — folk song singer and theatre actress.
Hazi Aslanov — twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Pavlov — Hero of Socialist Labor, given by the Soviet Union.
Pasha Tahmazov — National Hero of Azerbaijan.
Samedbey Mehmandarov — Russian army general, Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

Largest cities or towns in Azerbaijan 2013 Demographic statistics according to the administrative divisions, Azerbaijan State Statistics Committee
Rank	Name	Pop.
1	Baku	2,150,800
2	Sumqayit	325,200
3	Ganja	323,000
4	Mingachevir	99,700
5	Lankaran	85,300
6	Shirvan	80,900
7	Nakhchivan	78,300
8	Shamkir	69,600
9	Shaki	66,400
10	Yevlakh	66,300