1. Azerbaijan contains more than half of the world's mud volcanoes.
2. Azerbaijan is also known as “The Land of Fire”.
3. Azerbaijan is the home of mugham, ashiq and meykhana music genres.
4. By the beginning of the 20th century, Azerbaijan was supplying almost half of the world's oil.
5. Karabakh horse is the national animal of Azerbaijan.
6. Gaval Dash in Gobustan National Park is a rock, which makes a tambourine-like sound when it is hit in different points.
7. Kalaghai is a traditional Azerbaijani women's headgear. Its production and the wearing were included in the list of intangible cultural heritage UNESCO.
8. Buta ornament is widely used in Azerbaijan: on carpets, textiles and decoration of buildings.
9. Carpet weaving is the most broadly spread classic type of handicraft in Azerbaijan.
10. Most widely used spice in Azerbaijan is saffron, although fennel, bay leaf, coriander, anise and caraway seeds are also popular ways to enhance flavour.
11. The pomegranate symbolises unity in Azerbaijani folklore.
12. Founded in 1906, Azerbaijani weekly magazine Molla Nasreddin was revolutionary for its time, bravely ridiculing clerics and criticising the political elite as well as the Russian Tsar and the Shah of Persia.
13. According to Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl's hypothesis, Scandinavian ancestry can be traced to Gobustan region of Azerbaijan.
14. Neft Dashlary ("Oil Rocks") established in 1947, was included into Guinness Book of Records as the world's first offshore oil platform.
15. Singer Rashid Behbudov's repertoire includes 30 songs about Baku.
16. Azerbaijan is the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. The country also managed to win Türkvizyon Song Contest 2014.
17. Most popular sports in Azerbaijan are football, wrestling and chess while older people still enjoy the traditional game of backgammon.
18. Azerbaijan is the first majority Muslim country to give suffrage to women.
19. Karabakh is a word of Turkic and Persian origin meaning "black garden".
20. Azerbaijan, is home to the last Soviet collective farm and a group of dissident Christians called the Molokans, who were forced out of Russia by Catherine the Great.
21. Kamil Jalilov's recording of the song with balaban was included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft as representing mugham, only Azerbaijani song included among many cultural achievements of humanity.
22. In Alevism, Ismail I is seen as a religious figure, and a moral spiritual leader.
23. Nakhchivan is an autonomous republic within Azerbaijan.
24. Uzeyir Hajibayov's "Leyli and Majnun" is first opera staged in the Middle East.
25. Chingiz Abdullayev is Azerbaijan’s best-selling author. As of 2015, 27.5 million copies of his books have been printed in 29 languages around the world.
26. The Treaty of Turkmanchai, in 1828, divided Azerbaijan's territory between Persia (now Iran) and Russia.
27. By the beginning of the 20th century, there were over 13,000 German colonists in Azerbaijan. They founded towns like Tovuz (Traubenfeld), Shamkir (Annenfeld) and Helenendorf (Goygol).
28. Religious proselytizing is illegal in Azerbaijan.
29. The oldest salt mine in Azerbaijan is over 6500 years old.
30. Baku is also known as the “City of Winds”.
31. Ganja is Azerbaijan’s second biggest city.
32. Azerbaijan is the birthplace of the Chovgan, a forerunner of polo.
33. There are approximately 27 million Azerbaijanis (or of Azerbaijani descent) worldwide.
34. There's a small town in Azerbaijan called "Dashkasan," meaning "stone cutter."
35. Alim Qasimov won UNESCO Music Prize in 1999, one of the highest international accolades for music.
36. Chess is a compulsory subject in schools.
37. Azerbaijan abolished death penalty in 1998.
38. Azerbaijan's first telecommunications satellite has been launched into orbit in 2013.
39. Azeri is short for “Azerbaijani”.
40. The first European Games held in Baku.
41. Sheki, Nakhchivan and Ganja are three of Azerbaijan's oldest centres of trade.
42. Petroleum spas in Naftalan use crude oil baths to treat arthritis and skin conditions.
43. In 1942, Adolf Hitler's birthday cake was adorned by a map of the Caspian Sea with the word "Baku" spelled out with chocolate letters. After eating the cake, Hitler said: "Unless we get Baku oil, the war is lost".
44. Azerbaijan became part of the USSR at the end of 1922.
45. Famous names from Azerbaijani literature include: Nizami Ganjavi, Fuzuli and Imadaddin Nasimi.
46. The city of the Aghdam is only ghost town in Azerbaijan.
47. The number of words in the Azerbaijani language is: 111, 563. This is the estimate by the Azerbaijan Institute of Linguistics on January 1, 2015.
48. Azerbaijan contains 9 out of the 11 climatic zones.
49. The official religion of Azerbaijan is Islam.
50. People from Baku are called Bakuvians.