The Climate of the Apsheron Peninsula where Baku is situated is moderately warm with hot dry summer and short mild winter. Being situated in the same latitude with Greece and Italy, Apsheron is distinguished by higher average annual temperature and less quantity of precipitation. The Caspian Sea does not freeze in this latitude, therefore the Baku seaport functions all the year round. The average annual temperature of Baku and that of the Earth come together to the tenth portions (14.2ºC). The average temperature in July is +26ºC, in January it is +3ºC.

The population of Baku is about 2 million people.

First time Baku was mentioned in the Egyptian "Book of the Dead" 3500 years ago.

Modern Baku is a large industrial complex with a developed extraction of oil and gas, petro-chemical, machine-engineering and metalworking industry, production of construction materials.

Scientific and cultural life of the country is concentrated in Baku. It was here that the first national theatre in the entire Islamic East raised its curtains and the first opera was sounded, the first University was opened, the first Azerbaijani newspaper was published, the first Azerbaijani library and reading-hall was opened.